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Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the first seven volumes of a 14-volume set. All texts are fully annotated and comprehensively indexed. Works originally in Latin are presented in their contemporary English translations.
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VOLUME I General Introduction Textual Note Publications to 1660 Preface Synopsis of the Edition, and List of Short-titles used for Boyle s Works General Introduction The Making of an Author: Boyle s Intellectual Evolution to c. 1660 2: Boyle s Lists of his Writings and his Subsequent Intellectual Development 3: The Publication of Boyle s Works: Editors, Booksellers and Printers 4: Latin Translations of Boyle s Works 5: 'The English Philosopher : the Reception and Collection of Boyle s Works Textual Note 1 : The Edition and its Rationale 2: Editorial Policies Appendix: Works sometimes attributed to Boyle omitted from this edition Introductory Notes An Invitation to a free and generous Communication of Secrets and Receits in Physick (1655) François Perreaud, The Devill of Mascon (1658) The Copy of a Certain Large Act of Yonkers L. de Bils (1659) Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God (Seraphic Love) (1659) An Occasional Reflection (1663) New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects (1660) Sharrock s preface to the Latin edition of Spring of the Air (1661) Glossary
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Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the first seven volumes of a 14-volume set
