Authority Cited: Boyle
Author name and dates: Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish chemist (Boyle’s Law); “scientific method” contributor; inventor; founder of Royal Society; writer also on theology
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Bibliographical information: ROBERT BOYLE. Works, 5 vols., London, 1744 (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.150, all of the seven titles* he investigated are in the 1772 edition of the Works) BKG note: Some titles below may be variants of the same title. Total Boyle cites in the 1755 Dict.: about 533 in vol. 1, 588 in vol. 2)
Author name and dates: Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish chemist (Boyle’s Law); “scientific method” contributor; inventor; founder of Royal Society; writer also on theology
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Bibliographical information: ROBERT BOYLE. Works, 5 vols., London, 1744 (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.150, all of the seven titles* he investigated are in the 1772 edition of the Works) BKG note: Some titles below may be variants of the same title. Total Boyle cites in the 1755 Dict.: about 533 in vol. 1, 588 in vol. 2)
- Against Bently
- Boyle, Works
- Chym. Principles (Experiments and Notes about Productibleness of Chymical Principals)*; (per Wimsatt:: fugacity)
- Considerations upon the style of the Holy Scriptures
- Experiments
- Experiments and Considerations upon Colours
- Experiments on the Superficial Figures of Fluids
- History of Colours*; adventitious; diffusion; (per Wimsatt: optical)
- History of Firm. [Firmament]
- History of Fluidity [and Firmness]*; distemper; (per Wimsatt: adhesion; asperity; distil; mortify; stability)
- New Experiments Physico-mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects*; evacuate; defecate; (per Wimsatt: metalline; transfusion)
- Of Spirits
- Phys. Considerations (Physiological Essays and other Tracts?)
- Physico-Chemical Essay*; (per Wimsatt: adulterate)
- Proemial Essays
- Salt Pet. (Collection of Traits on the Saltiness of the Sea ….?)
- Sceptical Chymist*; (per Wimsatt: fermentation; fluctuation; indissoluble; insipid; intermixture; operation; register)
- Seraphic Love; advantageousness; castigation; crosswind; designlessly; devotedness; dilection; disanimate; dishonour; distrustful; divesture;; efflux; emblaze; eventually; expropriate; exuberate; selfishness; sinlessness; solemnize; square; starlike; stoop; synecdochical; [BKG Note: the Boyle cites for this work appear to be clustered - perhaps a function of the transcriber. There may be other citations of this work as "Boyle"]
- Some Considerations on the Usefulness of Experimental and Natural Philosophy
- Unsuccessful Experiments*; distiller (per Wimsatt)
- Boyle (no work cited); abjectedness; laborant;