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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.

The Work-diaries

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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