The correspondence of Robert Boyle

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The correspondence of Robert Boyle

edited by Michael Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe

Pickering & Chatto, 2001

  • : set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4
  • v. 5
  • v. 6

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Series title in CIP: The Pickering masters

Contents: v. 1. 1636-61, introduction -- v. 2. 1662-5 -- v. 3. 1666-7 -- v. 4. 1668-77 -- v. 5. 1678-83 -- v. 6. 1684-91, appendices, index

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Description

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index and is a set of 6 volumes covering the period of 1636 to 1691

Table of Contents

  • Boyle's principal correspondents: John Aubrey (1626-97), virtuoso and author
  • William Avery (d.1687), Boston doctor
  • Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bodley's librarian and bishop
  • Richard Baxter (1615-91), Presbyterian divine, Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), critic
  • John Beale (1608-83), divine and natural philosopher
  • Edward Bernard (1638-96), Oxford professor
  • Olaus Borrichius (1626-90), Danish chemist and savant
  • Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), churchman and politician
  • Frederick Clodius (fl. 1650-70), chemist and projector
  • Samuel Colepresse (d.1669), medical student and virtuoso
  • Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566-1643), Boyle's father
  • Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork (1612-97), Boyle's elder brother
  • Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford (1639-94), Boyle's nephew
  • Samuel Collins (1619-70), physician and traveller
  • Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), physician and natural philosopher
  • Ralph Cudworth (1617-88), Cambridge Platonist
  • Peter du Moulin (1601-84), divine and author
  • John Eliot (1604-90), missionary
  • John Endecott (1588?-1665), Governor of New England
  • John Evelyn (1620-1707), diarist and virtuoso
  • Nicolas Fatio de Duiller (1664-1753), natural philosopher
  • John Fell (1625-86), Bishop of Oxford
  • Joseph Glanvill (1636-80), divine and author
  • Valentine Greatrakes (1629-83), Irish 'stroker'
  • Samuel Hartlib (c.1600-62), intelligencer
  • Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), physician and natural philosopher
  • Robert Hooke (1635-1703), natural philosopher and inventor
  • Robert Huntington (1637-1701), orientalist and divine
  • Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), Bodley's librarian and orientalist
  • Henry Jones (1605-82), divine
  • Henri Justel (1620-93), Huguenot librarian
  • James Kirkwood (1650?-1708), divine
  • Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), philosopher and theologian
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), microscopist
  • Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715), chemist
  • John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher
  • Richard Lower (1631-91), physician and anatomist
  • Sir John Mallet (c.1623-86), Recorder of Bridgewater and MP
  • Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), churchman
  • Guy de Mesmin, French Protestant physician
  • Sir Robert Moray (1608-73), statesman
  • Henry More (1614-87), Cambridge Platonist
  • Allen Moulin (d.1690), anatomist
  • New England Company
  • Isaac Newton (1647-1727), mathematician and natural philosopher
  • Henry Oldenburg (1618-77?), first Secretary of the Royal Society
  • Margaret Boyle, Countess of Orrery (1623-89), Boyle's sister-in-law
  • Denis Papin (1647-c.1712), natural philosopher and inventor
  • William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker and colonialist
  • Sir William Petty (1623-87), political economist
  • Georges Pierre (d.1680), alchemist
  • Edward Pococke (1604-91), orientalist
  • Henry Power (1623-68), physician and natural philosopher
  • Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), Boyle's sister
  • Richard Jones, 3rd Earl of Ranelagh (1641-1712), Boyle's nephew
  • Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700), diplomat and writer
  • Andrew Sall (1612-82), Jesuit convert and divine
  • William Seaman (1607-80), orientalist
  • Robert Sharrock (1630-84), divine and author
  • Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), statesman and diplomat
  • George Starkey (1628-65), chemist
  • Henry Stubbe (1632-76), physician and controversialist
  • Thomas Sydenham (1624-1718), physician
  • Daubeney Turberville (1612-96), physician
  • James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political writer
  • John Wallis (1616-1703), Oxford professor
  • Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-78), Boyle's sister
  • Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea (d.1689), diplomat and author
  • John Winthrop (1606-76), Governor of Connecticut
  • Benjamin Worsley (1618-77), natural philosopher and projector

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