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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Title: The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication: London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,; 1699-1700.
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Subject terms: Physics -- Early works to 1800.; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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The Table.

A

AIR not the Primum Frigidum. Page 103
Of the Air's Temper. p. 107
The Doctrine of Antiperistasis examined. p. 145
Of the Pressure of the Airs Spring on Bodies under Water. p. 268, 271
Of the ••tmospheres of Consistent Solids. p. 412
Of Ambergrease. p. 551

B

To preserve Birds, &c. p. 353
Of the Bladders of Air in Fishes. Ibid.
The natural History of Human Blood. p. 459
Of the Colour of Human Blood. p. 460 516.
Of its Taste. Ibid.
Of its Odour. Ibid.
Of its Heat. Ibid.
Of its Inflamability. Ibid.
Of the Acid Parts naturally mixed with Hu∣man Blood. p. 461
Of its Specifick Gravity. Ibid.

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Of the Specifick Gravity of the Consistent part. p. 462
Of the Consistence of Human Blood. Ibid.
Of its Disposition to Concretion. Ibid.
What Liquors or Salts Coagulate it. Ibid.
What hinder its Coagulation. Ibid.
What Liquors preserve it, &c. Ibid.
Of the Volatile Salt of Human Blood. Ibid.
Of the Phlegm and Oyls of Human Blood. p. 465
Of the fixed Salt of Human Blood. p. 467
Of its Terra Damnata. p. 468
What substances may be Chymically obtained from it. Ibid.

C

Of the Mechanical Production of Cold p. 1, 189
Cold produced by a Solution of Sal-Armo∣niack. p. 2
—by a Mixture of Spirit of Salt and Ʋ∣rine. p. 3
—by Spirit of Rock Allom. Ibid.
—by oyl of Vitriol and Sal-Armoniack. p. 4.
Potential Coldness Mechanically explained. p. 5
Degrees of Cold neither to be judged of by our Sensory nor Weather-Glasses. p. 11
Of the degrees of Coldness in several Bo∣dies. p. 48

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Of the Circumscription of the Sphere of activity of Cold. p. 53, 85
Of the Preservation of Bodies by Cold p. 55
Of the Contraction of Liquors by Cold. p. 66
Of the Expansive force of Congelation. p. 83
What Mediums Cold may be diffused through. p. 88
Of the strange effects of Cold. p. 120
Promiscuous Experiments concerning Cold. p. 129
Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine of Cold examined. p. 158
Of the Positive and Privative Nature of Cold. p. 180

D

Observations about Diamonds and other shining Bodies. p. 138, 139, 141.

E

What the success of Experiments depends on. p. 9
The Earth not the Primum Frigidum. p. 100
Earth the Summum Frigidum. p. 102
Experiments about Explosions. p. 232
Of the strange Subtlety of Effluviums. p. 415
Of their Efficacy. p. 424
Of their determinate Nature. p. 431

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F

Of Bodies capable of Freezing others. p. 38
Of Bodies disposed to be Frozen. p. 42.
Of Bodies not disposed to be Frozen. p. 45
The effects of Frost on Solid Bodies. p. 123
Several Experiments about Freezing. p. 164
Fire and Flame made Ponderable. p. 205, 206, 210.
Of the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. p. 218, 220, 223.
Flame preserved under Water. p. 225
Of the Propagation of Flame in Vacuo. p. 226, 227
Of the Relation betwixt Air and the Flam∣ma Vitalis of Animals. p. 229

G

The effects of Gun-Powder dissolved in Water. p. 4.
Of the Perviousness of Glass. p. 213
A comminution of Gold into Powder. p. 363
Of the Nature of Granates. Ibid.
Of the Origin of Gems. p. 380
Of the Virtues of Gems. p. 397

H

Heat produced by a Mixture of Salt-Petre and oyl of Vitriol. p. 4
Of the Mechanical production of Heat. p. 191
Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out. p. 279
A new Hydrostatical Instrument, and its uses proposed. p. 311

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Observations about Hurricanes. p. 365

I

Of the Levity of Ice and its cause. p. 68
Observations and Experiments concerning Ice. p. 91
What Liquors soonest dissolve Ice and Snow. p. 96
The Qualities of Ice. p. 172

L

The Expansion and Contraction of Liquors measured. p. 75
Of the Relation betwixt Light and Air. Of the Levity of Bodies under Water. p. 265
A self moving Liquor. p. 351
A Preparation of Liquid Laudanum de∣scribed. p. 354

M

Of Mercury growing hot with Gold. p. 203
Of the growth and increase of Metals. p. 318
...Medicina Hydrostatica. p. 329
The weight of several Bodies weighed in Air and Water. p. 346
Passages relating to the Art of Medicine. p. 355
Of Specifick Medicines. p. 528
Their operations Mechanically solved. p. 531
That by their uniting with a Distempered Humour, a third Body may be produced not so offensive to Nature. p. 547

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N

Nitre not the Grand Efficient of Cold. p. 104
Of the effects of Nitre in Freezing. p. 131
Of the Aerial Noctiluca. p. 245
Of the Reason of Noctilucas. p. 247
Of the Icy Noctiluca. p. 255
Of the Subtlety of its Parts. p. 259

O

Oly of Vitriol and Sal-Armoniack mixed together. p. 8
A Hydrostatical way of estimating Ores. p. 321

P

Of the Primum Frigidum. p. 99
A Chymical Analysis of Pearls. p. 370
Of the Porosity of Bodies. p. 440
Of the Porosity of Animal Bodies. p. 450
The effects of Putrefaction and Fermentati∣on on Human Blood. p. 485

R

What Refrigeration depends on. p. 6
Strange Reports. p. 373

S

Of the different Pressure of Solids and Fluids. p. 272
Of the Serum of Human Blood. p. 474
Of the Spirit of Human Blood. p. 483
Spirit of Human Blood what. p. 487

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Of what Classis of Saline Bodies it is of p. 488
Whether different from Spirit of Ʋrine, &c. p. 490
Of its proportion to the Substance it is drawn from. p. 491
Of its Consistence and Specifick Gravity. p. 492
Of its Odour, Taste, and Colour. p. 494
Of its dissolving power. p. 495
Of the Coagulating power of Spirit of Hu∣man Blood. p. 499
Of its Precipitating power. p. 500
Of its affinity with some Chymical Oyls, &c. p. 501
Of the Relation betwixt Spirit of Human Blood and Air. p. 504
Of its Hostility with Acids, &c. p. 506
Of its Medicinal Virtues. p. 508, 511

T

The effects of a Mixture of Salt of Tartar and Water. p. 193
What Tinctures may be drawn with Spirit of Human Blood. p. 497

V

Titles for the Natural History of Human Ʋrine. p. 472

W

Of the ascent of Water in Weather-Glasses. p. 30

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Of the Expansion of Water and other Freezing Liquors. p. 62, 187
Of the Expansive force of Freezing Water. p. 79
Water not the Primum Frigidum. p. 702
The weight of Bodies froze and unfroze. p. 126
Whether ••ot Water freezes sooner than Cold. p. 134
Of the weight of Water in Water. p. 277

FINIS.

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