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The General Introduction to the electronic edition.
The Statement of Editorial Policy, which explains the techniques and conventions that lay behind our transcriptions.
Synopsis of the electronic edition of the work-diaries, arranged in tabular format
The Biographical Register, an alphabetical list of those people (and some places) appearing in the work-diaries.
Statement of Markup Policy and TEI Tag Usage, a description of the XML elements and attributes used in the transcriptions.
I ('Diurnall Observations, Thought & Collections', 1647): Diplomatic | Normalized
II (French literary aphorisms, 1647): Diplomatic | Normalized
III (French and English literary aphorisms, 1647): Diplomatic | Normalized
IV ('A Diurnall Miscellaneous Collection', literary aphorisms, 1649): Diplomatic | Normalized
V (Miscellaneous short work-diaries from the 1640s, with passages on moral and theological subjects): Diplomatic | Normalized
VI ('Memorialls Philosophicall', medical recipes, 1650): Diplomatic | Normalized
VII (Latin medical recipes, 1651): Diplomatic | Normalized
VIII ('Memorialls Philosophicall', medical recipes, 1652): Diplomatic | Normalized
IX (medical and chymical recipes, 1654?): Diplomatic | Normalized
X (Latin medical recipes, early 1650s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XI (French medical recipes, early 1650s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XII ('A Philosophicall Diary', medical and chymical recipes, 1655): Diplomatic | Normalized
XIII ('Promiscuous Observations', medical and chymical recipes, 1655): Diplomatic | Normalized
XIV ('A Private Philosophical Diary', chymical and medical recipes, 1656): Diplomatic | Normalized
XV ('Philosophicall Collections', chymical and medical recipes, 1656-7): Diplomatic | Normalized
XVI ('My Private Philosophicall Diary', chymical and medical recipes, 1657): Diplomatic | Normalized
XVII ('A Philosophical diary', chymical recipes, late 1650s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XVIII (chymical recipes, late 1650s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XIX ('Philosophicall entrys & Memorialls of all sorts', experiments and observations, 1663-4): Diplomatic | Normalized
XX ('A Continuation of Physiologicall Entryes', experiments and observations, early 1660s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXI ('Promiscuous Experiments, Observations & Notes', recipes, accounts of experiments and reports of phenomena, late 1660s-early 1670s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXII ('Promiscuous Addenda to my several Treatises', transcriptions and extracts from books, late 1660s-early 1670s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXIII ('A Continuation of C[hemical] Notes', chymical recipes, late 1660s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXIV ('Physiologicall Notes', accounts of phenomena recounted to Boyle, late 1660s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXV ('Loose, Experiments, Observations & Notes about the Preservation of Bodyes', experiments and observations, late 1660s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXVI (accounts of cures performed by Valentine Greatrakes during his time in London, 1666): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXVII (Chymical notes and theological aphorisms from a disbound notebook of the late 1660s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXVIII ('Physiological Memorandums', brief passages, endorsed with indications of placement in his published or projected works, 1673-4): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXIX (Experiments and observations, early 1670s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXX (two brief work-diaries from the early 1670s, with miscellaneous content): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXI (chymical recipes, 1678): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXII ('Relationes Physicae continued', reports on phenomena from travellers and virtuosi, late 1670s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXIII (chymical recipes, experimental accounts, and mnemonic verses from notebooks, early 1680s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXIV ('Chimical Notes, chymical recipes and observations, early 1680s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXV ('Chimical Memorandums', chymical recipes, early 1680s): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXVI (Accounts of phenomena related to Boyle by travellers and virtuosi, 1685-91): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXVII ('The XVI Century', experimental accounts and observations, many involving the specific gravities of various substances): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXVIII ('The XVII Century' and 'The XVIII Century'; experimental observations and notes, many involving specific gravities): Diplomatic | Normalized
XXXIX ('Distinguish'd Experiments or more Private Observations', experimental accounts and observations, 1689): Diplomatic | Normalized
XL (Two short work-diaries from the 1680s, with miscellaneous content): Diplomatic | Normalized
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