A
Catalogue
of
the
Philosophical
Books
and
Tracts
.
NEw
Experiments
Phisico-Mechanical
,
L
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
,
L
touching
the
Spring
and
Weight
of
the
Air
;
propos'd
by
the
Author
in
his
New
Phisico-Mechanical
Experiments
;
against
the
Objections
of
Franciscus
Linus
,
wherewith
the
Objectors
Funicular
Hypothesis
is
also
examin'd
.
An
Examen
of
Mr.
Tho
.
Hobbes's
Dialogus
Phicus
de
Natura
Aeris
,
as
far
as
it
concerns
the
Authors
Book
of
New
Experiments
,
touching
the
Spring
of
the
Air
;
with
an
Appendix
touching
Mr.
Hobbes's
Doctrine
of
Fluidity
and
Firmness
.
These
three
together
in
a
Volume
,
in
4o
,
being
a
Second
Edition
;
The
First
at
Oxford
1662
,
had
been
publish'd
,
Anno
1660.
The
Two
others
at
London
,
1662
,
had
been
publish'd
,
Anno
1661.
The
Sceptical
Chymist
,
&c.
1661.
L
Physiological
Essays
,
L
or
Tentamina
,
Written
and
Collected
upon
divers
Times
and
Occasions
,
☞
with
an
History
of
Fluidity
and
Firmness
,
in
4o
.
1662.
An
Experimental
History
of
Colours
begun
,
L
8o
.
1663
Some
Considerations
touching
the
usefulness
of
Experimental
Natural
Philosophy
,
☞
propos'd
in
a
familiar
Discourse
to
a
Friend
,
by
way
of
Invitation
to
the
Study
of
it
;
a
Second
Edition
4o
.
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
,
4o
.
1669.
Of
the
Usefulness
of
Experimental
Natural
Philosophy
,
&c.
the
Second
Tome
,
containing
the
latter
Section
of
the
Second
Part
,
4o
.
Oxford
.
1671.
The
First
Volume
of
these
three
Books
contains
Five
Essays
.
The
First
,
Of
the
Usefulnness
,
&c.
Principally
as
it
relates
to
the
Mind
of
Man
.
The
Second
,
A
Continuation
of
the
former
.
The
Third
,
A
further
Continuation
.
The
Fourth
,
A
requisite
Digression
concerning
those
,
who
would
exclude
the
Deity
from
intermedling
with
Matter
.
In
the
Fifth
,
The
Discourse
,
interrupted
by
the
late
Digression
,
is
resum'd
and
concluded
.
The
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
Phylosophy
may
become
useful
to
Human
Life
.
The
second
,
Of
the
usefulness
of
Mathematicks
to
Natural
Phylosophy
.
The
third
,
Of
the
usefulness
of
Mechanical
Disciplines
to
Natural
Phylosophy
.
The
fourth
,
That
the
Goods
of
Mankind
may
be
much
encreas'd
by
the
Naturalists
insight
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
Doctrine
of
Antiperistasis
;
with
An
Examen
of
Mr.
Hobbes's
Doctrine
touching
Cold
,
a
second
Edition
,
4o
.
1665.
Attempts
of
a
way
to
convey
Liquors
immediately
into
the
Mass
of
Blood
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
December
the
4th
.
1665.
Observations
and
Experiments
upon
the
Barometer
or
Ballance
of
Air
,
invented
,
directed
,
and
begun
,
Anno
1659
communicated
to
Dr.
Beal
that
continu'd
them
,
and
mention'd
in
the
Transactions
of
February
the
12th
,
and
March
the
12th
,
1666.
Hydrostatical
Paradoxes
made
out
by
new
Experiments
,
L
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
Earth-quake
near
Oxford
and
the
Concomitants
thereof
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
April
the
2d
.
1666.
New
Observations
and
Directions
about
the
Barometer
,
in
the
same
.
General
Heads
for
a
Natural
History
of
a
Countrey
,
great
or
small
,
communicated
in
the
same
.
The
Origine
of
Forms
and
Qualities
illustrated
by
Considerations
and
Experiments
,
L
in
two
Parts
,
8o
.
1666.
A
way
of
preserving
Birds
,
taken
out
of
the
Egg
,
and
other
small
Faetus's
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
May
7th
.
1666.
An
Account
of
a
new
kind
of
Baroscope
,
which
may
be
call'd
Statical
,
and
of
some
advantages
and
conveniences
it
hath
above
the
Mercurial
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
July
the
2d
.
1666.
A
new
Frigorific
Experiment
,
shewing
how
a
considerable
degree
of
Cold
may
be
suddenly
produc'd
,
without
the
help
of
Snow
,
Ice
,
Hail
,
Wind
or
Nitre
,
and
that
at
any
time
of
the
year
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
July
18th
,
1666.
Tryals
propos'd
to
Dr.
Lower
for
the
improvement
of
transfusing
Blood
out
of
one
live
Animal
into
another
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
February
the
11th
,
1666.
Free
Considerations
about
Subordinate
Forms
,
being
an
Appendix
to
the
Origine
of
Forms
and
Qualities
publish'd
last
year
,
and
reprinted
with
this
,
1667.
8o
.
A
Letter
to
the
Author
of
the
Phylosophical
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
Fracassati
,
in
a
Letter
written
from
Oxford
,
October
19th
,
1667.
New
Experiments
concerning
the
Relation
between
Light
and
Air
,
(
in
shining
Wood
and
Fish
)
in
a
Letter
from
Oxford
to
the
Publisher
of
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
January
the
6th
,
1668.
A
Continuation
of
the
same
Letter
in
the
Philosophical
Transactions
of
February
10th
,
16●8
.
A
Continuation
of
new
Experiments
,
Physico-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
Philosophical
Transactions
of
August
the
16th
.
1669.
Certain
Phylosophical
Essays
and
other
Tracts
,
L
a
second
Edition
;
with
a
Discourse
about
the
Absolute
rest
of
Bodies
,
4o
.
London
1669.
The
first
Edition
had
been
published
,
Anno
,
1662.
New
Pneumatical
Experiments
about
Respiration
,
upon
Ducks
,
Vipers
,
Frogs
,
&c.
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
August
8.
1670.
A
Continuation
of
the
same
Experiments
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
September
the
12th
.
L
1670.
Tracts
:
About
the
Cosmical
Qualities
of
Things
:
The
Temperature
of
the
Subterraneal
and
Submarine
Regions
,
and
the
bottom
of
the
Sea
;
together
with
an
Introduction
to
the
History
of
particular
Qualities
,
L
8o
.
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
mere
Cold
,
and
its
compression
without
Mechanical
Engines
,
and
the
admirably
differing
extensions
of
the
same
quantity
of
Air
,
rarefied
and
compress'd
,
4o
.
London
,
1670.
L
An
Essay
about
the
Origine
and
Virtues
of
Gems
,
8o
.
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
publisher
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
Description
whereof
was
presented
to
the
Lord
Broncker
,
Anno
1671.
Suggesting
a
conjecture
,
that
the
alterations
of
the
very
Weight
of
the
Air
,
may
have
considerable
Operations
,
even
upon
Mens
Sickness
or
Health
,
communicated
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
February
the
24th
.
1673.
Tracts
:
Containing
new
Experiments
,
☜
touching
the
Relation
between
Flame
and
Air
,
and
about
Explosions
.
An
Hydrostatical
Discourse
,
occasion'd
by
some
Objections
of
Dr.
Henry
Moor
,
&c.
to
which
is
annexed
an
Hydrostatical
Letter
about
a
way
of
weighing
Water
in
Water
:
New
Experiments
of
the
positive
,
or
relative
,
levity
of
Bodies
under
Water
:
Of
the
Airs-Spring
on
Bodies
under
Water
,
and
about
the
differing
Pressure
of
heavy
Solids
and
Fluids
,
8o
.
London
,
1672.
1691.
Essays
of
the
strange
Subtilty
,
L
great
Efficacy
,
☞
and
determinate
Nature
of
Effiuviums
;
to
which
are
annex'd
new
Experiments
to
make
the
parts
of
Fire
and
Flame
,
Stable
and
Ponderable
,
with
Experiments
about
arresting
and
weighing
of
Igneous
Corpuscles
;
and
a
Discovery
of
the
perviousness
of
Glass
to
ponderable
parts
of
Flame
,
8o
.
London
1673.
A
Letter
of
September
the
13th
,
1673
concerning
Ambergreece
,
and
its
being
a
Vegetable
Production
,
mention'd
in
the
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
October
the
6th
,
1673.
Tracts
:
L
Observations
about
the
saltness
of
the
Sea
:
☞
An
account
of
the
Statical
Hygroscope
,
and
its
Uses
,
together
with
an
Appendix
about
the
force
of
the
Airs
Moisture
,
and
a
Fragment
about
the
Natural
and
Preternatural
state
of
Bodies
.
To
all
which
is
premis'd
a
Sceptical
Dialogue
about
the
positive
or
privative
Nature
of
Cold
,
8o
.
London
,
1674.
1691.
A
Discourse
about
the
Excellency
and
Grounds
of
the
Mechanical
Hypothesis
,
L
occasionally
propos'd
to
a
Friend
,
annex'd
to
Another
entituled
,
The
Excellency
of
Theology
,
compar'd
with
Natural
Phylosophy
,
8o
.
London
1674.
An
account
of
the
two
sorts
of
Helmontian
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
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
October
26th
.
1674.
Tracts
:
Containing
,
1.
L
☜
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
,
8o
.
London
,
1674.
1691.
Some
Physico-Theological
considerations
about
the
possibility
of
the
Resurrection
,
annex'd
to
a
Discourse
,
entituled
,
The
Reconcileableness
of
Reason
and
Religion
,
8o
.
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
Phylosophical
Transactions
of
April
the
26th
,
1675.
A
New
Essay-Instrument
,
invented
and
described
by
the
Author
,
together
with
the
Uses
thereof
,
in
three
Parts
.
The
first
shews
the
occasion
of
making
it
,
and
the
Hydrostatical
Principles
't
is
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
propos'd
Guinea
be
true
,
or
counterfeit
.
2.
To
examine
divers
other
Gold
Coins
,
and
particularly
half
Guinea's
.
3.
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
Phylosophical
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
Tryals
to
discover
,
whether
the
Spring
of
the
Air
,
as
it
may
divers
ways
be
increas'd
,
so
may
not
by
other
ways
than
Cold
,
or
Dilatation
be
weakned
;
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
Decemb
.
27.
1675.
An
Experimental
Discourse
of
Quicksilver
,
growing
hot
with
Gold
,
English
and
Latin
,
communicated
in
the
Philosophical
Transactions
of
February
21.
1676.
Experiments
,
☞
Notes
,
&c.
about
the
Mechanical
Origine
or
Production
of
divers
particular
Qualities
,
amongst
which
,
is
inserted
a
Discourse
of
the
Imperfections
of
the
Chymists
Doctrine
of
Qualities
,
together
with
some
Reflections
upon
the
Hypothesis
of
Alcali
and
Acidum
,
8o
.
London
,
1676.
1690.
This
Discourse
comprehends
Notes
,
&c.
about
the
Mechanical
Origene
and
Production
of
Cold
.
-
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
contiguous
to
other
Liquors
:
Likely
to
conduce
much
to
the
Physical
Theory
of
the
grand
System
of
the
World
,
communicated
in
the
Philosophical
Transactions
of
January
29th
.
1676
/
7.
A
continuation
of
the
same
Experiments
in
the
Philosophical
Transactions
of
February
the
26th
.
1676
/
7.
The
Sceptical
Chymist
,
☜
or
Chymico-Physical
Paradoxes
,
touching
the
Experiments
whereby
vulgar
Spagyrists
are
wont
to
endeavour
to
evince
their
Salt
,
Sulphur
and
Mercury
to
be
the
true
Principles
of
Things
;
to
which
in
this
Second
Edition
are
subjoyned
divers
Experiments
and
Notes
,
about
the
Producibleness
of
Chymical
Principles
,
8o
.
Oxford
,
1680.
1690.
A
Second
Continuation
of
new
Experiments
Physico-Mechanical
,
in
which
,
L
☜
various
Experiments
,
touching
the
Spring
of
the
Air
,
either
compress'd
or
Artificial
,
are
contain'd
,
with
a
Description
of
new
Engines
to
perform
them
,
1680.
The
Aerial
Noctiluca
,
L
or
some
new
Phoenomena
,
☞
and
a
Process
of
a
factitious
Self-shining
Substance
,
8o
.
London
.
The
Glacial
or
Icy
Noctiluca
,
L
with
a
Chymical
Paradox
founded
on
new
Experiments
,
☞
whence
it
may
be
made
probable
,
that
Chymical
Principles
may
be
converted
one
into
another
,
8o
.
London
,
1680.
Memoirs
for
the
Natural
History
of
Human
Blood
,
L
☞
especially
the
Spirit
of
that
Liquor
,
London
,
1684.
Experiments
and
Considerations
about
the
Porosity
of
Bodies
,
L
☞
in
Two
Essays
:
The
former
of
the
Porousness
of
Animal
Bodies
;
The
other
of
the
Porousness
of
Solid
Bodies
,
8o
.
London
,
1684.
Short
Memoirs
for
the
Natural
Experimental
History
of
Mineral
Waters
,
☞
8o
.
1684
/
5.
An
Historical
Account
of
a
strangely
Self-moving
Liquor
,
communicated
in
the
Philosophical
Transactions
of
November
the
26th
.
1685
,
Of
the
Reconcileableness
of
Specifick
Medicines
,
L
☞
to
the
Corpuscular
Philosophy
,
to
which
is
annex'd
a
Discourse
about
the
advantages
of
the
use
of
Simple
Medicines
,
propos'd
by
way
of
Invitation
to
it
,
8o
.
London
,
1685.
An
Essay
of
the
great
Effects
of
Languid
☞
and
unheeded
Motion
.
To
which
is
annex'd
an
Experimental
Discourse
of
some
unheeded
Causes
of
the
Salubrity
and
Insalubrity
of
the
Air
and
its
Effects
,
8o
London
,
1685
,
1690.
A
free
Inquiry
into
the
vulgarly
receiv'd
Notion
of
Nature
,
L
☜
in
an
Essay
address'd
to
a
Friend
,
8o
.
London
,
1685
/
6.
A
Disquisition
about
the
Final
Causes
of
Natural
Things
.
*
☜
With
an
Appendix
of
some
Uncommon
Observations
about
vitiated
Sight
8o
.
London
,
1987
/
8.
Medicina
Hydrostatica
:
Or
,
Hydrostaticks
,
☜
applyed
to
the
Materia
Medica
,
Shewing
,
How
by
the
Weight
that
divers
Bodies
us'd
in
Physick
,
have
in
Water
;
one
may
discover
,
Whether
they
be
Genuine
or
Adulterate
.
To
which
is
subjoyn'd
,
a
previous
Hydrostatical
way
of
estimating
Ores
,
8o
.
London
,
1690.