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Database Language: English, some Latin (with English translation)
Contents: The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691 is the first edition of Boyle's correspondence, transcribed, mostly for the first time, from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and comprehensive general index.
The Correspondence of Robert Boyle is a British Academy Research
Project.
This is the first complete edition of Boyle’s correspondence, and supercedes the imperfect collected edition by Thomas Birch (1744; reprinted 1772, 1965). More than a third of the letters presented here have never previously been published, while the text of others is more complete and accurate than hitherto.
Editorial board:
Michael Hunter is at Birkbeck College, University of London. Publications include
Science and Society in Restoration England (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and
Robert Boyle by Himself and his Friends (Pickering &
Chatto, 1994)
Antonio Clericuzio is at the University of Cassino and author of various studies of Boyle's chemistry
Lawrence Principe is at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and author of The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest (Princeton University Press, 1998).
Boyle's principal correspondents:
John Aubrey (1626-97), virtuoso and author; William Avery (d. 1687), Boston doctor; Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bodley’s librarian and bishop; Richard Baxter (1615-91), Presbyterian divine, Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), critic; John Beale (1608-83), divine and natural philosopher; Edward Bernard (1638-96), Oxford professor; Olaus Borrichius (1626-90), Danish chemist and savant; Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), churchman and politician; Frederick Clodius (fl. 1650-70), chemist and projector; Samuel Colepresse (d. 1669), medical student and virtuoso; Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566-1643), Boyle’s father; Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork (1612-97), Boyle’s elder brother; Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford (1639-94), Boyle’s nephew; Samuel Collins (1619-70), physician and
traveller; Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), physician and natural philosopher; Ralph Cudworth (1617-88), Cambridge Platonist; Peter du Moulin (1601-84), divine and author; John Eliot (1604-90), missionary; John Endecott (1588?-1665), Governor of New England; John Evelyn (1620-1707), diarist and virtuoso; Nicolas Fatio de Duiller (1664-1753), natural philosopher; John Fell (1625-86), Bishop of Oxford; Joseph Glanvill (1636-80), divine and author; Valentine Greatrakes (1629-83), Irish ‘stroker’; Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-62), intelligencer; Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), physician and natural philosopher; Robert Hooke (1635-1703), natural philosopher and inventor; Robert Huntington (1637-1701), orientalist and divine; Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), Bodley’s librarian and
orientalist; Henry Jones (1605-82), divine; Henri Justel (1620-93), Huguenot librarian; James Kirkwood (1650?-1708), divine; Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), philosopher and theologian; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723),
microscopist; Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715), chemist; John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher; Richard Lower (1631-91), physician and anatomist; Sir John Mallet (c. 1623-86), Recorder of Bridgewater and MP; Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), churchman; Guy de
Mesmin, French Protestant physician; Sir Robert Moray (1608-73), statesman; Henry More (1614-87), Cambridge Platonist; Allen Moulin (d. 1690), anatomist; New England Company; Isaac Newton (1647-1727), mathematician and natural philosopher; Henry Oldenburg (1618-77?), first Secretary of the Royal Society; Margaret Boyle, Countess of Orrery (1623-89), Boyle’s sister-in-law; Denis Papin (1647-c. 1712), natural philosopher and inventor; William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker and colonialist; Sir William Petty (1623-87), political economist; Georges Pierre (d. 1680), alchemist; Edward Pococke (1604-91),
orientalist; Henry Power (1623-68), physician and natural philosopher; Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), Boyle’s sister; Richard Jones, 3rd Earl of Ranelagh (1641-1712), Boyle’s nephew; Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700), diplomat and writer; Andrew Sall (1612-82), Jesuit convert and divine; William Seaman (1607-80),
orientalist; Robert Sharrock (1630-84), divine and author; Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), statesman and diplomat; George Starkey (1628-65), chemist; Henry Stubbe (1632-76), physician and controversialist; Thomas Sydenham (1624-1718), physician; Daubeney Turberville (1612-96), physician; James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political writer; John Wallis (1616-1703), Oxford professor; Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-78), Boyle’s sister; Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea (d. 1689), diplomat and author; John Winthrop (1606-76), Governor of Connecticut; Benjamin Worsley (1618-77), natural philosopher and projector.
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