A Catalogue of the Philosophical Books and Tracts.

NEW Experiments Physico Mechanical,* touching the Spring and Weight of the* Air, and its Effects, (made for the most part in a new Pneumatical Engine) written by way of Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount of Dungarvan, Eldest Son to the Earl of Cork, by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq;

A Defence of the Doctrine, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, propos'd by* the Author in his New Physico-Mechantoal Experiments; against the Objections of Fran∣ciscus Linus, wherewith the Objectors Funicu∣lar Hypothesis is also examin'd.

An Examen of Mr. Tho. Hobbes's Dialogus Physicus de Naturâ Aeris, as far as it concerns the Authors Book of New Experiments, tou∣ching the Spring of the Air; with an Appen∣dix touching Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine of Flui∣dity and Firmness.

These three together in a Volume in 4 to, being a Second Edition; The First at Ox∣ford 1662, had been publish'd Anno 1660.

The two others at London 1662, had been publish'd, Anno 1661.

The Sceptical Chymist, &c. 1661.

Page  2Physiological Essays, or Tentamina, Writ∣ten* and Collected upon divers Times and* Occasions, with an History of Fluidity and Firmness, in 4 to. 1662.

An Experimental History of Colours be∣gun, 8vo. 1663.*

Some Considerations touching the Useful∣ness* of Experimental Natural Phylosophy, propos'd in a Familiar Discourse to a Friend, by way of Invitation to the Study of it: A Second Edition, 4to. Oxford, 1664. The first had been publish'd 1663.

Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, the Second Part; The first Section, of its Usefulness to Physick, with an Appendix to this First Section of the Second Part, 4to. 1669.

Of the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, &c. the Second Tome, contain∣ing the latter Section of the Second Part, 4to, Oxford, 1671.

The First Volume of these three Books, contains Five Essays.

• The First, Of the Usefulness, &c. Princi∣pally as it relates to the Mind of Man.
• The Second, A Continuation of the for∣mer.
• The Third, A further Continuation.
• The Fourth, A requisite Digression con∣cerning those, who would exclude the Deity from intermedling with Matter.
• In the Fifth, The Discourse, interrupted by the late Digression, is resum'd and con∣cluded.

Page  3The Second Volume contains likewise five Essays.

• The first, Of the Usefulness, &c. As to the Physiological part of Physick..
• The second, As to the Pathological part of Physick.
• The third, As to the Semeiotical part of Physick.
• The fourth, As to the Hygieinal part of Physick.
• The fifth, As to the Therapeutical part of Physick, in 20 Chapters.

The Third Volume contains six Essays.

• The first, General Considerations about the Means, whereby Experimental Phyloso∣phy may become useful to Human Life.
• The second, Of the Usefulness of Mathe∣maticks to Natural Phylosophy.
• The third, Of the Usefulness of Mechani∣cal Disciplines to Natural Phylosophy.
• The fourth, That the Goods of Mankind may be much increased by the Naturalists in∣sight into Trades, with an Appendix.
• The fifth, Of doing by Physical Knowledge, what is wont to require Manual Skill.
• The sixth, Of Mens great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things.

An experimental History of Cold, and some* Discourses concerning New Thermometrical Experiments, and Thoughts about the Do∣ctrine of Antiperistasis; with

An Examen of Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine touching Cold, a second Edition, Quarto, 1665.

Page  4Attempts of a way to convey Liquors imme∣diately into the Mass of Blood, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of Decem∣ber the 4th, 1665.

Observations and Experiments upon the Barometer or Ballance of Air, invented, di∣tected and begun, Anno 1659, communi∣cated to Dr. Beal that continued them, and mentioned in the Transactions of February the 12th, and March the 12th, 1666.

Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by new* Experiments▪ for the most part Physical and easie, occasion'd by Monsieur Paschal's Tract of the Equilibrium of Liquors, and of the Weight of the Air, 1666.

An account of an Earthquuke near Oxford, and the Con comitants thereof, communica∣ted in the Philosophical Transactions of April 2d, 1666.

New Observations and Directions about the Barometer in the same.

General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, great or small, communicated in the same.

The Origine of Forms and Qualities illu∣strated* by Considerations and Experiments, in two Parts, 8vo, 1666.

A way of preserving Birds, taken out of the Egg, and other small Eaetus's, commu∣nicated in the Philosophical Transactions of May the 7th, 1666.

An Account of a new kind of Baroscope, which may be called Statical, and of some advantages and conveniences it hath above Page  5 the Mercurial, communicated in the Philoso∣phical Transactions of July the 2d, 1666.

A new Frigorific Experiment, shewing how a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced, without the help of Snow, Ice, Hail, Wind or Nitre, and that at any time of the year, communicated in the Philosophical Trasnactions of July the 18th. 1666.

Tryals proposed to Dr. Lower for the im∣provement of transfusing Blood out of one live Animal into another, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 11th, 1666.

Free Considerations about Subordinate Forms, being an Appendix to the Origine of Forms and Qualities published last year, and reprinted with this, 1667, in 8•o.

A Letter to the Author of the Philoso∣phical Transactions, giving an Information of some Experiments which he had made himself several years ago, by injecting acid Liquors into Blood, upon the occasion of those communicated by Signior▪ Fracassari, in a Letter written from Oxford, October the 19th, 1667.

New Experiments concerning the Relati∣on between Light and Air, (in shining Wood and Fish) in a Letter from Oxford to the Publisher of the Philosophical Trans∣actions of January the 6th, 1668.

A Continuation of the same Letter in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 10th, 1668.

Page  6A Continuation of New Experiments, Phy∣sico-Mechanical, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects; The first part. With a Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies, Oxford, 1669.

An Invention for estimating the Weight of Water with ordinary Ballances and Weights, in the Phylosophical Transactions of August the 16th, 1669.

Certain Philosophical Essays and other Tracts, a second Edition; with a Discourse* about the Absolute rest of Bodies, Quarto, London 1669. The first Edition had been published Anno 1662.

New Pneumatical Experiments about Re∣spiration, upon Ducks, Vipers, Frogs, &c. communicated in the Philosophical Transa∣ctions of August 8. 1670.

A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of September* the 12th, 1670.

Tracts: About the Cosmical Qualities of Things: The Temperature of the Subter∣raneal and Submarine Regions, and the bot∣tom of the Sea; together with an Introducti∣on to the History of particular Qualities, 8vo.* Oxford, 1670.

Tracts: A Discovery of the admirable Rarefaction of the Air (even without Heat:) New Observations about the duration of the Spring of the Air. New Experiments touching the condensation of the Air by meer Cold, and its compression without Mechanical En∣gines, Page  7 and the admirably differing extentions of the same Quantity of Air, rarified and compressed, Quarto, London, 1670.

An Essay about the Origine and Virtues* of Gems, Quarto, London, 1672.*

Some Observations about shining Flesh, both of Veal, and Pullet, and that without any sensible Putrefaction in those Bodies, communicated by way of Letter to the Pub∣lisher of the Philosophical Transactions, in the Transactions of December, the 16th, 1672.

A new Experiment concerning an Effect of the varying Weight of the Atmosphere upon some Bodies in the Water, the De∣scription whereof was presented to the Lord Broncker, Anno 1671. Suggesting a Con∣jecture, that the Alterations of the very Weight of the Air, may have considerable Operations, even upon Mens Sickness or Health, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 24th, 1673.

Tracts: Containing new Experiments, touching the Relation between Flame and Air, and about Explosions. An Hydrosta∣tical Discourse, occasioned by some Objecti∣ons of Dr. Henry Moor, &c. to which is an∣nexed an Hydrostatical Letter about a way of weighing Water in Water: New Experi∣ments of the positive, or relative, Levity of Bodies under Water: Of the Air-Spring on Bodies under Water, and about the differing Pressure of heavy Solids and Fluids, Octavo, London, 1672, 1691.

Page  8Essays of the strange Subtilty, great Effi∣cacy,* and determinate nature of Effluviums; to which are annexed new Experiments to make the parts of Fire and Flame, Stable and Ponderable, with Experiments about arrest∣ing and weighing of Igneous Corpuscles; and a Discovery of the perviousness of Glass to ponderable parts of Flame, Octavo, London, 1673.

A Letter of September the 13th, 1673. concerning Ambergreece, and its being a Vegetable Production, mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions of October, the 8th, 1673.

Tracts: Observations about the Saltness* of the Sea: An Account of the Statical Hy∣roscope, and its Uses, together with an Ap∣pendix about the force of the Air's Moisture, and a Fragment about the Natural and Pre∣ternatural state of Bodies. To all which is premised a Sceptical Dialogue about the po∣sitive or privative Nature of Cold, Octavo, London, 1674, 1691.

A Discourse about the Excellency and* Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, oc∣casionally proposed to a Friend, annexed to another, Entituled, The Excellency of Theo∣logy, compared with Natural Philosophy, Octa∣vo, London, 1674.

An Account of the two sorts of Helmon∣tian Laudanum, together with the way of the Noble Baron F. M. Van Helmont (Son to the famous John Baptista) of preparing his Laudanum, communicated in the Philo∣sophical Page  9 Transactions of October the 26th. 1674.

Tracts: Containing, 1. Suspicions about* some hidden Qualities of the Air, with an* Appendix touching Coelestial Magnets, and some other particulars. 2. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo. 3. A Discourse of the Cause of Attraction by Suction, Octavo, London, 1674, 1691.

Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the possibility of the Resurrection, an∣nexed to a Discourse, Entituled, The Recon∣ciliableness of Reason and Religion, Octavo, London, 1674/5.

A Conjecture concerning the Bladders of Air, that are found in Fishes, communicated by A. J. and illustrated by an Experiment, suggested by the Author in the Philosophi∣cal Transactions of April the 26th, 1675.

A new Essay Instrument, invented and described by the Author, together with the Uses thereof, in 3 Parts.

The first shews the Occasion of making it, and the Hydrostatical Principles 'tis founded on.

The second describes the Construction of the Instrument.

The third represents the Uses; which, as relating to Metals, are

• 1. To discover whether a proposed Guinea be true or Counterfeit.
• 2. To examine divers other Gold Coins, and particularly half Guinea's.
• Page  103. To examine the new English Crown pieces of Silver.
• 4. To estimate the Goodness of Tin and Pewter.
• 5. To estimate Alloys of Gold and Silver, and some other Metalline Mixtures. All this maketh up the Philosophical Transactions of June 21. 1675.

Ten new Experiments about the weaken'd Spring, and some unobserved Effects of the Air, where occur not only several Trials to discover; whether the Spring of the Air, as it may divers ways be increased, so may not by other ways than Cold, or Dilation be weakened, but also some odd Experiments to shew the Change of Colours producible in some Solutions and Precipitations by the Operation of the Air, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December 27th, 1675.

An Experimental Discourse of Quicksilver, growing hot with Gold, English and Latin, communicated in the Philosophical Transacti∣ons of February 21. 1676.

Experiments, Notes. &c. about the Me∣chanical* Origin or Production of divers* particular Qualities, amongst which, is in∣serted a Discourse of the Imperfections of the Chymists Doctrine of Qualities, together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum, Octavo, London, 1676, 1690.

This Discourse comprehends Notes, &c. about the Mechanical Origine and Producti∣on of Cold.

Page  11
• Of Heat.
• Of Tasts.
• Of Odours.
• Of Volatility.
• Of Fixtness.
• Of Corrosiveness.
• Of Corrosibility.
• Of Chymical Precipitation.
• Of Magnetical Qualities.
• Of Electricity.

New Experiments about the superficial Figures of Fluids, especially of Liquors con∣tiguous to other Liquors: likely to conduct much to the Physical Theory of the grand System of the World, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of January, the 29th, 167 6/7

A continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions in February the 167 6/7.

The Sceptical Chymist, or Chymico-Phy∣sical* Paradoxes, touching the Experiments whereby Vulgar Spagyrists are wont to en∣deavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things, to which in this second Edition are subjoyn∣ed divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles, Octa∣vo Oxford, 1680, 1690.

A second Continuation of new Experi∣ment* Physico-Mechanical, in which, various* Experiments, touching the Spring of the Air, either compressed or artificial, are con∣tain'd, with a Description of new Engines to persorm them, 1680.

Page  12The Aerial Noctiluca, or some new Phoe∣nomena,* and a Process of factitious Self-shi∣ning* Substance, Octavo, London.

The Glaical or Icy Noctiluca, with a Chy∣mical* Paradox founded on new Experiments,* whence it may be made probable, that Chy∣mical Principles may be converted one into another, Octavo, London, 1680.

Memorials for the Natural History of Hu∣man* Blood, especially the Spirit of that Li∣quor,* London, 1684

Experiments and Considerations about the* Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays: The* former of the Porousness of Animal Bodies; The other of the Porousness of solid Bodies, Octavo, London, 1684.

Short Memoirs for the Natural Experi∣mental* History of Mineral Waters, Octavo, 1685.

An Historical Account of a strangely Self-moving Liquor, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of November, the 26th, 1685.

Of the Reconcileablness of Specifick Me∣dicines,* to the Corpuscular Philosophy, to* which is annexed a Discourse about the Ad∣vantages of the use of simple Medicines, pro∣pos'd by way of Invitation to it, Octavo, London, 1685.

An Essay of the great Effects of Languid and unheeded Motion. To which is an∣nex'd* an Experimental Discourse of some un∣heeded Causes of the Salubrity and Insalu∣brity of the Air and its Effect, Octavo, Lon∣don, 1685, 1690.

Page  13A free Inquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd* Notion of Nature, in an Essay address'd to* a Friend, Octavo, London, 168 5/6.

A Disquisition about the Final Causes of* Natural Things. With an Appendix of some* Uncommon Observations about vitiated Sight, Octavo, London, 1688.

Medicina Hydrostatica: Or, Hydrostaticks,* applied to the Materia Medica, shewing, How by the Weight that divers Bodies us'd in Physick, have in Water; one may disco∣ver, whether they be Genuine or Adulterate. To which is subjoin'd, a previous Hydro∣statical way of estimating Ores, Octavo, Lon∣don, 1690.

Experimenta & Observationεs Physicae;* wherein are briefly treated of several Sub∣jects relating to Natural Philosophy in an Experimental way; to which is added, a small Collection of strange Reports, in two Parts, Octavo, London, 1691.

Medicinal Experiments: Or, a Collection* of Choice Remedies, for the most part sim∣ple and easily prepared, Twelves, London, 1692. Price 1 s.