Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

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Robert Boyle. Mezzotint by J. Faber after J. M. Rysbrack, 1733.

Robert Boyle. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after W. Derby.

Robert Boyle. Stipple engraving, 1822.

Robert Boyle. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer, 1825, after J. Kerseboom.

Robert Boyle. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1800 after G. Vertue.

Robert Boyle. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1739 after J. Kerseboom.

Robert Boyle. Stipple engraving.

Robert Boyle. Line engraving by B. Baron, 1722 after J. Kerseboom.

Robert Boyle. Line engraving by B. Baron, 1744 after J. Kerseboom.

Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.

Unpublished material relating to Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the natural history of blood / edited by Michael Hunter and Harriet Knight.

Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / Sorana Corneanu.

New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold, begun : to which are added an examen of antiperistasis, and an examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold : whereunto is annexed An account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret, a fellow of it : together with an appendix, containing some promiscuous experiments and observations relating to the precedent history of cold / by ... Robert Boyle.

Entretiens sur l'acide et sur l'alkali, où sont examinées les objections de Mr. Boyle contre ces principes. Avec une replique à la lettre de Mr. S[aulnier] docteur en medecine ... touchant la nature de ces deux sels ... / [François de Saint André].

New experiments and observations touching cold or, An experimental history of cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold ... Whereunto is annexed an account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society / by ... Dr. C. Merret. Together with an appendix containing some promiscuous experiments and observations relating to the precedent history of cold. By the Honourable Robert Boyle.

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) / Written by way of letter to ... Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.

New experiments and observations touching cold, or an experimental history of cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold / by the Honorable Robert Boyle ... ; Whereunto is annexed an account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret. A Fellow of it.

A free enquiry into the vulgarly receivʼd notion of nature; made in an essay, addressʼd to a friend / By R.B., fellow of the Royal society.

Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].

New experiments, and observations, made up on icy noctiluca ... To which is annexed a chymical paradox [grounded upon new experiments, making it probable, that chymical principles are transmutable] / [Robert Boyle].

Tentamina quaedam physiologica diversis temporibus & occasionibus / conscripta à Roberto Boyle, nobili Anglo, cum eiusdem historia fluiditatis et firmitatis. Ex Anglico in Latinum sermonem translata.

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 / [Robert Boyle].

Exercitationes circa utilitatem philosophiae naturalis experimentalis / [Robert Boyle].

Observationes de salsedine maris / [Robert Boyle].

Nouveau traité de monsieur Boyle, de l'Academie royale de Londres, sur la convenance des remèdes spećifiques avec la philosophie des corpuscules, & sur l'usage & les propriétez des médicamens simples. / De la traduction de Mr. Rostagny.

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) / [Robert Boyle].

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Exercitationes circa utilitatem philosophiae naturalis experimentalis / [Robert Boyle].

Observationes de salsedine maris / [Robert Boyle].

Nouveau traité de monsieur Boyle, de l'Academie royale de Londres, sur la convenance des remèdes spećifiques avec la philosophie des corpuscules, & sur l'usage & les propriétez des médicamens simples. / De la traduction de Mr. Rostagny.

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) / [Robert Boyle].

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Robert Boyle

Images from the collections

Images by Robert Boyle

Images featuring Robert Boyle

Works from the collections

Exercitationes circa utilitatem philosophiae naturalis experimentalis / [Robert Boyle].

Observationes de salsedine maris / [Robert Boyle].

Nouveau traité de monsieur Boyle, de l'Academie royale de Londres, sur la convenance des remèdes spećifiques avec la philosophie des corpuscules, & sur l'usage & les propriétez des médicamens simples. / De la traduction de Mr. Rostagny.

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) / [Robert Boyle].

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