Thanks to a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the core volumes of the Boyle archive at the Royal Society have been digitised, and complete sets of images of various of these volumes will be made available on the Boyle website in December 2004.
In the meantime, a selection of digitised images is provided here to show their quality and as a foretaste of what is to come.
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Synopses of unpublished works by Boyle, including a work on experience, reason and authority in science, and his critique of Galenic medicine, 'Some Considerations & Doubts about the Vulgar Method or Practice of Physick' (the latter published in Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000), p. 167) (Boyle Papers 18, fol. 48v © Royal Society)
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Notes on an experiment on a frog in Boyle's air-pump, 9 September 1662 (published in Philosophical Transactions in 1670, and in The Works of Robert Boyle (1999-2000), vol. 6, p. 219) (Boyle Papers 18, fol. 127 © Royal Society) |
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A revealing document from the Boyle archive, Boyle's notes on a frank discussion of matters on his conscience with Bishop Gilbert Burnet, 27 June 1691 (published in Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000), pp. 90-2) (Boyle Papers 3, fol. 141 © Royal Society) |
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The opening page of one of Boyle's workdiaries, dating from 1662-5. This is workdiary 19: see The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle. (Boyle Papers 22, p. 1 © Royal Society)
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