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id: A56771
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  Some observations made upon the Russia seed shewing its admirable virtues in curing the rickets in children / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to Esq. Boyle at London, 1674.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A56771) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 44439)


id: A56763
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  Some observations made upon the herb cassiny imported from Carolina shewing its admirable virtues in curing the small pox / written by a physitian in the countrey to Esq. Boyle at London.

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id: A28937
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: Advertisements about the experiments and notes relating to chymical qualities
date: 1675.0
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words: 1719
sentence: 51
flesch: 48
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  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A28937) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109769) Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A39594
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1684.0
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flesch: 57
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title:
  Farther additions to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land of sea-water made fresh : together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians of the wholesomeness of this water.

summary:
  It is further to be considered , that hitherto the richest and ablest bodied Sea-men have been averse horn undertaking long Voyages , by reason of endangering their Healths , and Lives , by making use of putrified Water , which inconvenience is not now to be feared , there being such hopes of useful Fresh Water by the use of this Engine ; and possibly a smaller number of men may serve the use of Ships than do at present , by which much Charges will be saved to the Masters and Owners of Ships ; and Merchants may Trade upon easier Terms In Portsmouth ; Rochester , the Fenns of Lincolnshire , and any other places near the Sea , where Waters are Brackish , and consequently unwholsome , this Engine , &c. may be very useful , and where there is room enough to place it , very great quantities of Water may be had for the use of whole Families , and the Ingredients when used in great quantities may be afforded at a cheaper Rate . It 's probable that the Engine may be frequently out of Order , and being so at Sea , where Artificers and Tools are wanting to repair it , there must necessarily follow want of Water , which will be of Ill Consequence .


id: A28988
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: Of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir, a strange chymical narative.
date: 1678.0
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summary:
  The Novelty of this Preamble having much surprised the Auditory , at length , Simplicius , with a disdainful Smile , told Pyrophilus , That the Company would have much thanked him , if he could have assured them , That he had seen another Mettal Exalted into Gold ; but , that to find a way of spoiling Gold , was not onely an Useless Discovery , but a Prejudicial Practice . Wherefore , ( concludes he ) I think Pyrophilus ought to be both desired and incouraged to go on with his intended Discourse , since whether Gold be or not be the Best of Metals ; an assurance that it may be degraded , may prove a Novelty very Instructive , and perhaps more so than the Transmutation of a baser Metal into a Nobler .


id: A71259
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695.0
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flesch: 58
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title:
  The characters of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, March 4. 1694/5 : being the third of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  And therefore since Revelation is to make up the Defects of Natural Light , and is as well for the satisfaction of Mankind , as to be worthy of God , we may reasonably expect that these should be the chief Subject of such Revelation . 2. The Matter of Revelation being thus of Divine Inspiration and Authority , must also be worthy of God , and of great Importance , and consequently requires a Proof suitable to the Nature and Importance of it .


id: A66396
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  The divine authority of the scriptures a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Sept. 2. 1695 : being the sixth of the lecture for the said year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  For if the Errors had proceeded immediately from the Writer , they would have appeared more in the Composures of the Unlearned than the Learned : But when the Unlearned are as free from them as the Learned , 't is an unquestionable sign that the Unlearned wrote from the same Spirit as the Learned , and both from a Spirit that is Divine . How we can prove the Matter of Scripture to be true ? Q. 2.


id: A66395
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  The divine authority of the scriptures a sermon peached at St. Martin's in the Fields, May 4. 1695 : being the fifth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  1. It is a Character belonging to Revelation , and a sign of the Truth of it , when it apparently has God for the Author , and can proceed from none but him . And if we take a view of the Scheme of what the Scripture sets before us as to this matter , it will abundantly confirm what I have proposed as a Character of Revelation , and that is , That it is from God , and only from him .


id: A69557
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1693.0
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flesch: 53
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title:
  A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. Part II a sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, November the 7th, 1692 : being the seventh of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... / by Richard Bentley ...

summary:
  'T is demonstrated , That the Sun , Moon and all the Planets do reciprocally gravitate one toward another : that the Gravitating power of each of These is exactly proportional to their Matter , and arises from the several Gravitations or Attractions of every individual Particle that compose the whole Mass : that all Matter near the Surface of the Earth , for example , doth not only gravitate downwards , but upwards also and side-ways and toward all imaginable Points ; though the Tendency downwards be praedominant and alone discernible , because of the Greatness and Nearness of the attracting Body , the Earth : that every Particle of the whole System doth attract and is attracted by all the rest , All operating upon All : that this Vniversal Attraction or Gravitation is an incessant , regular and uniform Action by certain and established Laws according to Quantity of Matter and Longitude of Distance : that it cannot be destroyed nor impair'd nor augmented by any thing , neither by Motion nor Rest , nor Situation nor Posture , nor alteration of Form , nor diversity of Medium : that it is not a Magnetical Power , nor the effect of a Vortical Motion ; those common attempts toward the Explication of Gravity : These things , I say , are fully demonstrated , as matters of Fact , by that very ingenious Author , whom we cited before . Because if there were every-where an absolute plenitude and density without any empty pores and interstices between the Particles of Bodies , then all Bodies of equal dimensions would contain an equal Quantity of Matter ; and consequently , as we have shewed before , would be equally ponderous : so that Gold , Copper , Stone , Wood , &c. would have all the same specifick weight ; which Experience assures us they have not : neither would any of them descend in the Air , as we all see they do ; because , if all Space was Full , even the Air would be as dense and specifically as heavy as they .


id: A66386
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  The certainty of divine revelation A sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Feb. 4. 1694/5. Being the second of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By John Williams, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty.

summary:
  So that had we no such Promise upon record , as , The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head ; yet however , we might be as sure that there was some such kind of Revelation made to Adam , some Promise of Forgiveness , when God did intend to Redeem him and all Mankind , as there was a Design to Redeem them : It being as necessary toward their present Comfort to have a Revelation of that Mercy in their Redemption , as Redemption it self was necessary toward their Happiness . Now if this be unreasonable for Man to expect , it is so then in the case of Revelation , which God had committed to the Custody of Men themselves , and made them whose Interest it was , to be the Conservators of it .


id: A28996
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple and easily prepared very useful in families and fitted for the service of country people : the third and last volume, published from the author's original manuscripts : whereunto is added several other useful notes explicatory of the same / by ... R. Boyle ...

summary:
  Medicine to cleanse the Womb Page 18 Medicine for the Tooth-ach Page 21 Menses suppressed Page 39 Medicine to kill Tetters Page 44 Medicine to prevent Driness , and some other Disaffections of the Eyes Page 64 Medicine for the Stone , by a Famous Emperie Page 64 Medicine for Fits of the Mother Page 9.65 Medicine for the Cholic Page 66 Medicine for Scorbutic Gums , and to fasten the Teeth Page 68.92 Medicine for a Stroke or Contusion of the Eyes Page 69 Another excellent Medicine for a Bruise in the Eye Page 70 O OCulorum Propter gravedinem & dolorem Page 75 P PAin of the Teeth , from Rheum Page 3.36 Pain in the Eyes Page 75 Plaister preferr'd to the Soap Plaister Page 28 Pericarpium for Agues Page 14 Pleurisie Page 36.56 Piles Page 52 Plaister to strengthen the Eyes and stop Defluxions Page 72 Pouder Styptick Page 11 Purging Electuary for Children Page 22 R RElaxation of the Vvula Page 59 Redness of the Eyes Page 38.58.77.85.89 Remedy for an Ague Page 13.30.44 Rheums a powerful Medicine Page 12.60 Remedy to take off Films , and such like things from the Eyes Page 71.93 Remedy for sharp and hot Humours in the Eyes Page 73 Rheumatick pain of the Teeth Page 3 Running of the Reins to cure Page 45 Rheums to stop Page 60 Running of the Eyes Page 72.73.91 S SOap Plaister for the Gout Page 28 Sight to strengthen Page 19 Scurvey beginning Page 20 Stone in the Bladder Page 21 Strains Recent Page 41.85 J. W. THE INDEX· A AFter-birth to bring away Page 10 Ague to prevent or Cure Page 13.14.81 Agues Tertian Page 14 Ague Page 30.44


id: A28992
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1692.0
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words: 12856
sentence: 707
flesch: 74
summary: Pag. 4 , 13 , 25 , 74 Amulet against Agues . Pag. 13 Amulet against Cramps .
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title:
  Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice remedies for the most part simple, and easily prepared by ... R. Boyle ...


id: A66409
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7355
sentence: 206
flesch: 55
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title:
  The possibility, expediency, and necessity of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 7. 1694/5 : at the beginning of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  1. There are things of pure and simple Nature , and knowable by the Light of it , without Revelation ; of this kind is the Knowledge of God by the Effects of a Divine Power and Wisdom in the world ( as has been shewed ) of which the Apostle treats , Rom. 1. 20. Now Revelation is a means extraordinary ( as has been shewed ) and consequently such as the means are , such must the case be , extraordinary ; for God , not doing any thing in vain , cannot be supposed to use extraordinary means , where the case is ordinary , and may as well be served by ordinary means .


id: A29012
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: Of the cause of attraction by suction a paradox / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
date: 1674.0
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words: 12563
sentence: 215
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summary:
  But , if instead of Water you dip the lower end into Quicksilver , though you suck as strongly as ever you can , provided that in this case , as in the former , you hold the Pipe upright , you will never be able to suck up the Quicksilver near so high as your mouth ; so that if the Water ascended upon Suction to the top of the same Pipe , because else there would have been a Vacuum left in the cavity of it , why should not we conclude , that , when we have suckt up the Quicksilver as strongly as we can , as much of the upper part of the Tube as is deserted by the Air , and yet not fill'd by the Mercury , admits , in part at least , a Vacuum , ( as to Air ) of which consequently Nature cannot reasonably be suppos'd to have so great and unlimited an abhorrency , as the Peripateticks and their Adherents presume . HAving thus shewn , that the Ascension of Water upon Suction may be caus'd otherwise than by the Condensation or the propagated Pulsion of Air contiguous to the Suckers Thorax , and thrust out of place by it ; it remains that I shew , ( which was one of the two things I chiefly intended , ) that there may be Cases wherein the Cause , assign'd in the Hypothesis I am examining , will not have place .


id: A28938
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1680.0
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sentence: 359
flesch: 42
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title:
  The aerial noctiluca, or, Some new phœnomena, and a process of a factitious self-shining substance imparted in a letter to a friend living in the country / by the honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  For having purposely kept certain Fish in a Glass , freed from Air , till I concluded it had lay'n longer than was necessary to bring it to that degree of Putrefaction , which was wont to make such Fish , at that time of the year , to shine , I could not perceive in the Cavity of the Glass the least glimpse of light : and presently after I had let in the outward Air , it did ( according to my expectation ) as it were , kindle a flame , in the proximately dispos'd matter , or at least produce in it a manifest light . And to examine that suspicion , I thought it less proper to make the foregoing Tryals with a more vigorous Noctiluca , then in a substance , wherein , as in that we have hitherto employ'd , the disposition to be kindled , or excited to shine , was but faint ; so that being , as long as it remain'd , unexcited , opacous and dark , the absolute , or almost absolute , necessity of the concurrence of Air to the actual shining ( that constantly ensu'd upon its Contact ) of the dispos'd matter , seem'd manifest enough .


id: A28939
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
date: 1674.0
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summary:
  And , first , I see no probability in what he gratìs asserts , that so thick a Cylinder of Brass , as made the chief part of the pump of our Engine , should yield to the Sucker , that was mov'd up and down in it , though by the help of an Iron rack ; and whereas he adds , that the leather , that surrounds the more solid part of the Sucker , would yield to such a force ; it seems , that that compression of the leather should by thrusting the solid parts into the pores make the leather rather less than more fit to give passage to the Air ; nor would it however follow , notwithstanding Mr. Hobbes's Example , that , because a Body admits Water , it must be pervious to Air : For I have several times , by ways elsewhere taught , made Water penetrate the pores of Bladders , and yet Bladders resist the passage of the Air so well , that even when Air included in them was sufficiently rarified by Heat , or by our Engine , it was necessary for the Air to break them before it could get out ; which would not have been , if it could have escap'd through their pores . B. Yet that , which I chiefly aim'd at in the Trial , was not the Phaenomenon I perceive you mean ; for , my design was , by breaking the Ice for them , to encourage some , that may have more skill and accommodation than I then had , to make an attempt that I did not find to have been made by any ; namely , to reduce the Expensive force of Heat in every way included Air , if not in some other Bodies also , to some kind of measure , and , if 't were possible , to determin it by weight .


id: A29013
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1685.0
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flesch: 49
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title:
  Of the high veneration man's intellect owes to God, peculiarly for his wisedom and power by a Fellow of the Royal Society.

summary:
  But not to insist on Conjectures ; the Scripture it self that brings so much Light to things Divine , that the Gospel is called Light in the Abstract , the Scripture , I say , informs us , that in this Life we know but in part , and see things but darkly as in a Glass ; and that we are so far from being able to find out God to perfection , as to his Nature and Attributes , that even the ways of his Providence are to us untraceable . The Scripture in one place exhorts us to grow not onely in Grace , but in the Knowledge of Christ ; and in another to add to our Vertue Knowledge ; and when Moses beg'd to be bless'd with a nearer and more particular view of God , though part of His request was refus'd , because the grant of it was unsutable to his mortal State , and perhaps must have prov'd fatal to him whilst he was in it ; yet God vouchsafed so Gratious a return to his petition , as shews He was not displeas'd with the supplicant .


id: A29026
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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mime: application/xml
words: 22802
sentence: 811
flesch: 59
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title:
  Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters addressed by way of letter to a friend / by Robert Boyle.

summary:
  The powder of Galls fitter to produce a new colour in Mineral Wa●●●● than their infusion . Upon this dry'd Paper ye may let fall , but not all on the same place , some drops of the Mineral Liquor to be examin'd , especially if it be of a Saline nature , and by the Changes of Colour , effected by these Drops on the Parts of the Paper , they fell and spread themselves upon , a heedful observer may be assisted to guess , what kind of Mineral impregnates the Liquor , and how much it does so ; especially if on the same Sheet of Paper some other fit Mineral Water or idoneous Liquor be likewise dropt , that the changes of colour produc'd by the two Fluids , may be survey'd and compar'd together .


id: A42035
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1691.0
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flesch: 48
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title:
  Curiosities in chymistry being new experiments and observations concerning the principles of natural bodies / written by a person of honour ; and published by his operator, H.G.

summary:
  Since Tallow , as well as every other Body , is materially nothing else but water Coagulated by a seminal Acid , and since 't is only the Acid Particles that feed the Flame ; it follows , that when they are consum'd , he remainder , being robb'd of , the Coagulating , Acid must return into Elementary Water , and therefore 't is insensibly dissipated like a Vapour : even as the water of Spirit of Wine kindled vanishes into a Vapour . The diversity , that is among Natural Bodies , is wholly owing to the different Seminal Ideas , that regulate the Operation of the Plastick Spirit , which Coagulates Water into various Substances , differing in Figure , Solidity , Bigness , Order and Connection of Parts , and other Modifications , according as its Motions are guided by these Ideas .


id: A28981
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 23036
sentence: 743
flesch: 62
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title:
  A free discourse against customary swearing ; and, A dissuasive from cursing by Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams.

summary:
  Sin , because natural to us , is so readily learnt by us , that as in shooting , by practising to hit Wrens and silly Sparrows , we learn the art of killing Feldifares , Thrushes , and the other sort of Birds we never aimed at ; so by committing some small sin , we learn , tho insensibly ( and perhaps undesignedly ) to commit other and grosser kinds of sins . So in Hosea , Swearing has the Van of the most crying and provoking Sins , in that same dismal passage ; By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood : Therefore shall the land mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish , with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven ; yea , the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away .


id: A28974
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1684.0
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sentence: 507
flesch: 43
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title:
  Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies in two essays / by the honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  Having then made several inquiries fit for my purpose , his Lordship told me , that when he did , as he was wont to do from time to time , ( though not every day ) inject with a Syringe some actually warm medicated Liquor into his Thorax , to cleanse and cherish the Parts , he should quickly and plainly find in his Mouth the tast and smell of the Drugs , wherewith the Liquor had been impregnated . That part of this Narrative which relates to Injections may be much confirm'd by what is delivered by Galen himself , who says that Mulsum or Honeyed Water , being injected at the Orifice of Wounds penetrating into the cavity of the Thorax , has been observed to be in part received into the Lungs , and discharged out of the Aspera Arteria by coughing .


id: A28958
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
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words: 32406
sentence: 686
flesch: 43
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title:
  A discourse of things above reason· Inquiring whether a philosopher should admit there are any such. By a Fellow of the Royal Society· To which are annexed by the publisher (for the affinity of the subjects) some advices about judging of things said to transcend reason. Written by a Fellow of the same Society.

summary:
  And 't is by the sense which the mind has of her own l●●mitedness and imperfection on cer●tain occasions , that I think we ma●● estimate what things ought no● and what ought to be looked upo● as Things above Reason ; for by th●● Term , I would not have you thin●● I mean such things as our ration●● faculty cannot at all reach to , So that according to you , Sophronius , it may be said , that by reason we do not properly perceive Things above Reason , but only perceive that they are above Reason , there being a dark and peculiar kind of Impression made upon the understanding , while it sets it self to contemplate such confounding Objects , by which peculiarity of impression , as by a distinct and unwonted kind of internal sensation , the understanding is brought to distinguish this sort of things ( namely ) transcendent or priviledg'd ones from others , and discern them to be disproportionate to the powers with which it uses throughly to penetrate Subjects , that are not impervious to it .


id: A28994
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
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words: 34369
sentence: 1620
flesch: 76
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title:
  Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.

summary:
  If after several tryals this Medicine prove not effectual enough , take ten drops of Oyl of Worms , and mix with it well four or five drops of Oyl of Turpentine ; and with this Mixture well warm'd anoint the Part from time to time ; or else let the Patient keep the Part for a good while together , for more than once or twice if need require , in warm Rain-water ( to dissolve the Scorbutick Salts . ) 178. BOil good Turnips in Water , and having exprest the Juice , mix with it as much finely pouder'd Sugar-candy as will bring it into a kind of a Syrup , of which let the Patient swallow a little as slowly as he can from time to time .


id: A28968
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1691.0
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mime: application/xml
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flesch: 46
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title:
  Experimenta & observationes physicæ wherein are briefly treated of several subjects relating to natural philosophy in an experimental way : to which is added, a small collection of strange reports / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  And first , several of the ensuing Particulars that I met with among my Papers , being parts of Essays of other Discourses , and being for hast Transcribed for the most part Verbatim , as they were couched there ; I dare hope for your excuse , if among such Transcripts you now and then meet with things , which , how pertinent soever to the Tracts they first belong'd to , might have been spared as needless , if not sometimes Forein ; also , in the new Form the Discourses are now put into ; since I could not leave out such unnecessary Clauses ( whereof yet I hope you will not find many ) without too much mutilating the coherence , or obscuring the sense of what is delivered ; and I could not alter them , and adapt others to supply their places without spending more time , and taking more Pains , than in the condition I am now in , I suppose you would be willing to condemn me to . It strongly relish'd of Iron , and a little of it being dropp'd into Infusion of Galls , it turn'd it immediately into an Inky Liquor ; part of this Solution being gently Evaporate ● , grew thick like an Extract , but did not seem dispos'd to shoot into Chrystals ; yet another part of it did precipitate with Salt of Tartar , much like a Solution of Vitriol ; and another with Spirit of fermented Urine gave a plentiful , but yellowish red , Praecipitate .


id: A28990
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: The martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus by a person of honour.
date: 1687.0
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summary:
  The martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus by a person of honour. The martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus by a person of honour.


id: A28989
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1666.0
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  Hydrostatical paradoxes made out by new experiments, for the most physical and easie / by Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  And therefore , though we allow , that in an Experiment so diligently made , as this was , the aire praexistent in the bubble did not adaequately possess so much as a fourth part , but about a fifth or a sixth of its Cavity , the aire will yet appear so heavy , that this Experiment will agree well with those others , recorded in another Treatise , wherein we assign'd ( numero rotundo ) a thousand to one , for the proportion wherein the specifick Gravity of water exceeds that of aire . PARADOX I. That in Water , and other Fluids , the lower parts are press'd by the upper . And for a Curiosity , we have added to the two lately mentioned Liquors ( oyle of Tartar , and Spirit of Wine ) some oyl of Turpentine , and thereby had three Liquors of different Gravities , which will not by shaking , be brought so to mingle , as not quickly to part again , & retire each within its own Surface ; and by thrusting a Pipe with water in the bottom of it ( placing also ones finger upon the upper Orifice ) beneath the Surface of the lowermost of these Liquors , and by opportunely raising or depressing it , one may somewhat vary the Experiment in a way not unpleasant ; but explicable upon the same grounds with the rest of the Phaenomena mentioned in this Discourse . PARADOX . II.


id: A29016
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy to which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines / by Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  We may then take notice , that the confidence with which many Physicians reject , and some of them deride , External Specificks , if I may so call them , seems to be built upon these two things : The One , that the Medicine cannot in part , as 't is certain it do's not in the Mass , get into the Body ; and the other , that , in case a Specifick should have some part of it subtil enough to gain admittance , that Part must be too small and inconsiderable , to be able to produce in the Body any such notable change , as is necessary to the expulsion of Peccant Humours , and the conquering of a Disease . And others again ( being of Sentiments very differing from these ) will allow them to be very efficacious , but endeavour to derive their whole Efficacy from Manifest Qualities , as heat , cold , tenuity of Parts , faculty of making large Evacuations by Vomit , Siege , &c.


id: A28998
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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title:
  Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle.

summary:
  l. 10. these words , For the sixt Salt of Blood does it self much resemble Sea-Salt , whether its Spirit be Acid or no , should be included in a Parenthesis . THough rectified Spirit of Wine be a Menstruum consisting of very subtil parts , and upon that account be a good Dissolvent of divers Vegetable Substances , and as Experience has assured me , of some Metalline ones too , that seem to be more solid than the Fibrous part of Humane Blood ; yet looking upon this Body as of a very differing texture from those , I thought Spirit of Wine might have a very differing Operation upon it . And accordingly having separated from the Serum a clot of Blood , that was coagulated but soft enough , as the Fibrous part uses to be before 't is dryd , I kept it for divers hours in a very well dephlegmed Vinous Spirit , from whence I afterwards took it out as hard as if it had been well dry'd by the fire .


id: A28945
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1690.0
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title:
  The Christian virtuoso shewing that by being addicted to experimental philosophy, a man is rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian / by T.H.R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society ; to which are subjoyn'd, I. a discourse about the distinction that represents some things as above reason, but not contrary to reason, II. the first chapters of a discourse entituled, Greatness of mind promoted by Christianity, by the same author.

summary:
  Which I the rather did ; because some Experience has taught me , that such a Way of proposing and elucidating Things , is , either as most clear , or , upon the account of its Novelty , wont to be more acceptable , than any Other , to our Modern Virtuosi ; whom thus to Gratify , is a good Step towards the Persuading of them . But though among these Ingenious Men there are several , whose Expectations from me I am much more disposed to Gratify , than Disappoint ; yet , on such an occasion as this , I must take the liberty to own , That I do not think the Corporeal World , nor the Present State of Things , the Only or the Principal Subjects , that an Inquisitive Man's Pen may be worthily employed about ; and , That there are some Things that are grounded , neither upon Mechanical , nor upon Chymical , Notices or Experiments , that are yet far from deserving to be Neglected , and much less to be Despised , or so much as to be left Uncultivated , especially by such Writers , as being more concerned to act as Christians , than as Virtuosi , must also think , that sometimes they may usefully busy themselves about the Study of Divine Things , as well as at other times employ their Thoughts about the Inspection of Natural Ones .


id: A28956
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1662.0
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flesch: 49
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title:
  A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his new physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus ; wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd, by the author of those experiments.

summary:
  Air -- Early works to 1800. And this Explication may be confirm'd by this trial that I have purposely made , namely , that if in stead of Quicksilver you employ Water , and leave as before in the Tube an Inch of Air , and then inverting it , open it under Water , you will perceive the included Inch of Air not to dilate it selfe any thing near ( for I need not here define the Proportion )


id: A28961
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  3. That Bodies so heavy , and consequently so abundant in parts of solid matter crouded together , as Minerals , and other Fossiles are wont to be , may well be suppos'd capable , without destructively wasting themselves to emit store of such minute Particles as Effluvia , for an exceeding long time . For I found , that when I heated a piece of glass or of a fire-stone , I could without inconvenience hold my naked hand upon parts that were very near ( suppose within an inch off ) the ignited portions of them .


id: A28966
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1674.0
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title:
  The excellency of theology compar'd with natural philosophy (as both are objects of men's study) / discours'd of in a letter to a friend by T.H.R.B.E. ... ; to which are annex'd some occasional thouhts about the excellency and grounds of the mechanical hypothesis / by the same author.

summary:
  And though the Investigation and clear establishment of the true Principles of Philosophy , and the devising the Instruments of Knowledge , be things that may be allowed to be the proper work of sublimer Wits ; yet , if a man be furnish'd with such assistances , 't is not every Discourse that he makes , or thing which he does by the help of them , that is difficult enough to raise him to that illustrious rank . And , upon the same score , it ought not to seem strange , that he has not mention'd some late Discoveries and Books that might have been pertinently taken notice of , and would well have accommodated some parts of his Discourse ; since things that may thus seem to have been omitted , are of too recent a Date to have been known to him when He writ .


id: A23752
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1678.0
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flesch: 63
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title:
  The lively oracles given to us, or, The Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture by the author of The whole duty of man, &c.

summary:
  The Bible was not committed ( like the Regalia , or rarities of a Nation ) to be kept under lock and key ( and consequently to constitute a profitable office for the keepers ) but expos'd like the Brazen Serpent for universal view and benefit : that sacred Book ( like the common air ) being every mans propriety , yet no mans inclosure : yet there are a generation of men whose eies have bin evil , because Gods have bin good : who have seal'd up this spring , monopoliz'd the word of Life , and will allow none to partake of it but such persons , and in such proportions as they please to retail it : an attemt very insolent in respect of God , whose purpose they contradict ; and very injurious in respect of man , whose advantage they obstruct . Now at this rate of infidelity , what way will they leave God to manifest any thing convincingly to the world ? which is to put him under an impotency greater then adheres to humanity : for we men have power to communicate our minds to others , tell whether to we own such or such a thing , to which we are intitled ; and we can satisfy our Auditors that it is indeed we that speak to them : but if every method God uses , do's rather increase then satisfy mens doubts , all intercourse between God and man is intercepted ; and he must do that of necessity , which Epicurus phancied he did of choice ; viz.


id: A28965
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1673.0
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title:
  Essays of the strange subtilty great efficacy determinate nature of effluviums. To which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable. : Together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass. : Also An essay, about the origine and virtue of gems. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ... ; To which is added The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids giving an account of the Earth, and its productions. By Nicholas Steno. ; Englished by H.O.

summary:
  The Author having many years ago written an Essay about an Experiment he made of Nitre , by whose Phaenomena he endeavour'd to exemplifie some parts of the Corpuscular Philosophy , especially the Production of Qualities ; he afterwards threw together divers occurring thoughts and experiments , which he suppos'd might be imployed by way of Notes , to prove or illustrate those Doctrines , and especially those that concern'd the Qualities of Bodies ; and among these observing those that are call'd Occult , to be Subjects uncultivated enough , ( at least in the way that seem'd to him proper , ) he propos'd to handle them more largely than most of the rest ; and in order to that Design he judg'd it almost necessary , to premise some Considerations and experimental Collections about the Nature and power of Effluviums , about the Pores of Bodies and Figures of Corpuscles , and about the efficacy of such Local-motions as are wont either to be judged very faint , or to be pass'd by unheeded . WHether we suppose with the Antient and Modern Atomists , that all sensible Bodies are made up of Corpuscles , not only insensible , but indivisible ; or whether we think with the Cartesians , and ( as many of that Party teach us ) with Aristotle , that Matter , like Quantity , is indefinitely , if not infinitely divisible : It will be consonant enough to either Doctrine , that the Effluvia of Bodies may consist of Particles extremely small .


id: A29052
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1674.0
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title:
  Tracts containing I. suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets and some other particulars : II. animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo : III. a discourse of the cause of attraction by suction / by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq. ...

summary:
  For I have found by tryals purposely made , that a small flame of a Lamp , though fed perhaps with a subtil thin Oyl , would in a large capacious glass-Receiver expire , for want of Air , ●●in a far less time than one would be●eve . Yet , if I were rightly inform'd of an Experiment of yours , Mr. Hobbes may be thereby reduc'd either to pass over to the Va●uist's , or to acknowledge some AEtherial or other matter more subtil than Air , and capable of passing through the pores of glass ; and therefore , to shew your self impartial between the Vacuists and their Adversaries in this Controversie , I hope you will not refuse to gratifie the Plenists by giving your friends a more particular account of the Experiment .


id: A28985
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: The general history of the air designed and begun by the Honble. Robert Boyle ...
date: 1692.0
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summary:
  AS to your Question , What I think the Air to be ? I shall in the first place take it for granted , that by the Air you mean not , either the pure Element of Air , which some , nor that Etherial or Celestial Substance , that others ( upon what Grounds I must not here examine ) This Distinction , which perhaps you look'd not for , I shall illustrate by this Example ; That if you sufficiently heat an Eolipile furnished with Water , and stay a pretty while to afford time for the expulsion of the Aerial Particles by the Aqueous Vapours , you may afterwards observe , that these last named will be driven out in multitudes , and with a noise , and will emulate a Wind or Stream of Air , by blowing Coals , held at a convenient distance , like a pair of Bellows , and by producing a sharp and whistling Sound against the edg of a Knife , held in a convenient Posture almost upon the Orifice of the Pipe , whence they issue out .


id: A28982
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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title:
  A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature made in an essay address'd to a friend / by R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society.

summary:
  And you will make no great difficulty to believe me , if you consider , that , whilst Men allow themselves so general and easie a way , or rendring accounts of things that are difficult , as to attribute them to Nature ; shame will not reduce them to a more industrious scrutiny into the Reasons of Things , and curiosity itself will move them to it the more faintly : Of which we have a clear and eminent Example , in the Ascension of Water in Pumps , and in other Phaenomena's of that kind , whose true Physical Causes had never been found out , if the Moderns had acquiesced , as their Predecessors did , in that imaginary one , that the World was Govern'd by a Watchful Being , call'd Nature , and that she abhors a vacuum , and consequently is still in a readiness , to do irresistibly whatever is necessary to prevent it : Nor must we expect any great Progress , in the discovery of the true Causes of natural Effects , whilst we are content to sit down with other , than the particular and immediate ones . For , as is elsewhere noted , if Nature be a Bodily Creature , and acts necessarily , and ( if I may so speak , ) fatally , I see no Cause to look upon It but as a kind of Engine ; and the Difficulty may be as great , to conceive how all the several Parts of this supposed Engine , call'd Nature , are themselves fram'd and mov'd by the Great Author of Things , and how they act upon one another , as well as upon the undoubted Mundane Bodies ; as 't is to conceive how , in the World itself , which is manifestly an admirably contriv'd Automaton , the Phaenomena may , by the same Author , ( who was able to endow Bodies themselves with Active Powers , as well as he could , on other scores , make them Causes , ) be produc'd by Vertue , and in consequence of the Primitive Construction and Motions that He gave it ( and still maintains in it , ) without the Intervention of such a thing , as they call Nature .


id: A28949
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1669.0
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title:
  A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air and their effects. The I. part whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / written by way of letter to the right honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan by the honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  All these things being done , and the handle of the Rammer being tied to the Turning-key of a capp'd Receiver , the Syringe and its Pedestal were inclosed in a capacious Receiver , ( for none but such a one could contain them , and give scope for the Rammers motions , ) and the Pump being set on worke , we did , after some quantity of Air was drawn out , raise the Sucker a litle by the help of the Turning-key , and then turning the same Key the contrary way we suffer'd the Weight to depress the Sucker , that we might see at what rate the Feather would be blown up ; and finding that it was impell'd forceably enough , we caus'd the pumping to be so continued , that a pretty many pauses were made , during each of which we rais'd and depress'd the Sucker as before , and had the opportunity to observe , That as the Receiver was more and more exhausted of the Air , so the Feather was less and less briskly driven up , till at length , when the Receiver was well emptied , the usual elevations and depressions of the Sucker would not blow it up at all that I could perceive , though they were far more frequently repeated than ever before ; nor was I content to look heedfully my self , but I made one whom I had often imploy'd about Pneumatical Experiments to watch attentively , whilst I drew up , and let down the Sucker , but he affirm'd that he could not discern the least beginning of Ascension in the Feather . I hope , that to such Readers as the following Papers are principally intended for , I shall not need to make an Apology either for the Plainenesse of my Style , ( wherein I aim'd at Perspicuity , not Eloquence , ) or for my not having adorn'd or stufft this Treatise with Authorities or Sentences of Classick Authors , which I had neither the leisure to seek , nor thought I had any great need to imploy , though it had been far more easie then perhaps it would have proved , to borrow from them things that would have been very proper to a Treatise where my main Design was , to make out by practicable Experiments divers things among other that have not hitherto been advantaged by that way of Probation , nor perchance thought very capable of it ; so that I shall have obtained a great part of what I aim'd at , if I have shewn , that those very Phaenomena , which the School-Philosophers , and their party urge , and sometimes triumph in , as clear Proofs of Natures abhorrency of a Vacuum , may be not onely explicated , but actually exhibited , some by the Gravity , and some also by the bare Spring of the Air. Which Latter I now mention as a distinct thing from the other , not that I think it is actually separated in these Tryals , ( since the Weight of the upper parts of the Air does , if I may so speak , bend the Springs of the lower , ) but because that having in the already published Experiments , and even in some of These , manifested the Efficacy of the Airs gravitation on Bodies , I thought fit to make it my Task in many of These , to shew , that most of the same things that are done by the Pressure of all the superincumbent Atmosphere acting as a VVeight , may be likewise performed by the Pressure of a small portion of Air , included indeed ( but without any new Compression ) acting as a Spring .


id: A29017
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1666.0
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title:
  The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy) illustrated by considerations and experiments (written formerly by way of notes upon an essay about nitre) by ... Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  * The following Discourse ( Of the Origine of Form● ) ought to have been placed before this foregoing Sectio● the Historical Part. THe Origine ( Pyrophilus ) and Nature of the Qualities of Bodies , is a Subject , that I have long lookt upon , as one of the most Important and Usefull that the Naturalist can pitch upon for his Contemplation .


id: A69611
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
title: Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness.
date: 1675.0
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summary:
  For whereas 't is affirm'd , that this irresistible Menstruum will dissolve all tangible bodies here below , so as they may be reduc'd into insipid water ; as on the one side 't will be very hard to conceive how a specificated Menstruum that is determin'd to be either Acid , or Lixiviate , or Urinous , &c. should be able to dissolve so great a variety of Bodies of differing and perhaps contrary natures , in some whereof Acids , in other Lixiviate Salts , and in others Urinous are predominant ; so on the other side , if the Alkahest be not a specificated Menstruum , 't will very much disfavour the Opinion of the Chymists , that will have some Bodies dissoluble onely by Acids as such , others by fixt Alkalys , and others again by Volatile Salts ; since a Menstruum , that is neither Acid , Lixiviate , nor Urinous , is able to dissolve bodies , in some of which one , and in others another of those Principles is predominant : For , if I took upon me to demonstrate , that the Qualities of bodies cannot proceed from ( what the Schools call ) Substantial Forms , or from any other Causes but Mechanical , it might be reasonably enough expected , that my Argument should directly exclude them all .


id: A28980
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1676.0
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title:
  Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities among which is inferred a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities : together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  For whereas 't is affirm'd , that this irresistible Menstruum will dissolve all tangible bodies here below , so as they may be reduc'd into insipid water ; as on the one side 't will be very hard to conceive how a specificated Menstruum that is determin'd to be either Acid , or Lixiviate , or Urinous , &c. should be able to dissolve so great a variety of Bodies of differing and perhaps contrary natures , in some whereof Acids , in other Lixiviate Salts , and in others Urinous are predominant ; so on the other side , if the Alkahest be not a specificated Menstruum , 't will very much disfavour the Opinion of the Chymists , that will have some Bodies dissoluble onely by Acids as such , others by fixt Alkalys , and others again by Volatile Salts ; since a Menstruum , that is neither Acid , Lixiviate , nor Urinous , is able to dissolve bodies , in some of which one , and in others another of those Principles is predominant : For , if I took upon me to demonstrate , that the Qualities of bodies cannot proceed from ( what the Schools call ) Substantial Forms , or from any other Causes but Mechanical , it might be reasonably enough expected , that my Argument should directly exclude them all .


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