A CATALOGUE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL Books and Tracts, Written by the Honourable ROBERT boil Esq; Together with the ORDER or TIME, Wherein Each of them hath been published respectively. To which is added A CATALOGUE Of the Theological Books, Written by the same AUTHOR.  
In the Savoy, Printed by Edw. Jones. 1689.   

A CATALOGUE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL Books and Tracts, Written by the Honourable ROBERT boil Esquire.  

Advertisements of the Publisher.  
1. Many ingenious Persons, especially Strangers, having pressingly endeavoured to procure a Catalogue of the Honourable Mr. Boils Writings; and the Author himself being not at leisure to draw one up; 'twas thought it might be some satisfaction to those Inquirers, if I published the following List, as it was drawn out, for his own use, of the Philosophical Transactions, as well as the Printed Volumes, by an ingenious French Physician, studious of the Authors Writings, some of which he Translated and Printed in his own Language.  
2. The Letter L. affixed in the Margin, denotes the Book related to, to have been Translated, and Published in the Latin Tongue also. Several of the rest having likewise been Translated into Latin, but not yet Published.  
3. Those that have an Asterisk prefixed to them, came forth without the Author's Name, though 'tis not doubted, but they are His.  
4. Divers of those mentioned as drawn out of the Transactions, did probably come abroad in Latin; some of the Transactions themselves having been published in that Language.   
NEw Experiments Physicomechanical, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and its Effects, (made for the most part in a new Pneumatical Engine) written by way of Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount of Dungarvan, Eldest Son to the Earl of Cork, by the Honourable Robert boil, Esquire.  
A Defence of the Doctrine, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, proposed by the Author in his New Physicomechanical Experiments; against the Objections of Franciscus Linus, wherewith the Objectors Funicular Hypothesis is also examined.  
An Examen of Mr. Tho. Hobbes's Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris, as far as it concerns the Author's Book of New Experiments touching the Spring of the Air; with an Appendix touching Mr. Hobbes' Doctrine of Fluidity and Firmness.  
These three together in a Volume in 4º, being a second Edition; the first at Oxford 1662., had been published Anno 1660. The two others at London 1662., had been published Anno 1661.  
The Sceptical Chemist, etc. 1661.  
Physiological Essays, or Tentamina, Written and Collected upon divers Times and Occasions, with an History of Fluidity and Firmness in 4ᵒ. 1662.  
An Experimental History of Colours begun, 8ᵒ. 1663.  
Some Considerations touching the usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, proposed in a familiar Discourse to a Friend, by way of Invitation to the study of it; a second Edition 4o. Oxford 1664. The first had been published 1663.  
Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, the second Part; the first Section, of its Usefulness to Physic, with an Appendix to this first Section of the second Part, 4ᵒ. 1669.  
Of the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, etc. the second Tome, containing the later Section of the second Part, 4o. Oxford 1671.  
The first Volume of these Three Books contains five Essays.  
The first, Of the Usefulness, etc. Principally as it relates to the Mind of Man.  
The second, A Continuation of the former.  
The third, A further Continuation.  
The fourth, A requisite Digression concerning those, who would exclude the Deity from intermeddling with Matter.  
In the fifth, The Discourse, interrupted by the late Digression, is resumed and concluded.  
The Second Volume contains likewise five Essays.  
The first, Of the Usefulness, etc. As to the Physiological part of Physic.  
The second, As to the Pathological part of Physic.  
The third, As to the Semeiotical part of Physic.  
The fourth, As to the Hygieinal part of Physic.  
The fifth, As to the Therapeutical part of Physic, in 20 Chapters.  
The Third Volume contains six Essays.  
The first, General Considerations about the Means, whereby Experimental Philosophy may become useful to Human Life.  
The second, Of the usefulness of Mathematics to Natural Philosophy.  
The third, Of the usefulness of Mechanical Disciplines to Natural Philosophy.  
The fourth, That the Goods of Mankind may be much increased by the Naturalists insight into Trades, with an Appendix.  
The fifth, Of doing by Physical Knowledge, what is wont to require Manual Skill.  
The sixth, Of men's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things.  
An Experimental History of Cold, and some Discourses Concerning New Thermometrical Experiments, and Thoughts about the Doctrine of Antiperistasis; with  
An Examen of Mr. Hobbes' Doctrine touching Cold, a second Edition, 4ᵒ 1665.  
Attempts of a way to convey Liquors immediately into the Mass of Blood, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December the 4th. 1665.  
Observations and Experiments upon the Barometer or Balance of Air, invented, directed, and begun, Anno 1659. communicated to Dr. Beal that continued them, and mentioned in the Transactions of February the 12th, and March the 12th. 1666.  
Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by new Experiments, for the most part Physical and easy, occasioned by Monsieur Paschal's Tract of the Equilibrium of Liquors, and of the weight of the Air, 1666.  
An account of an Earthquake near Oxford, and the Concomitants thereof, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of April the 2d. 1666.  
New Observations and Directions about the Barometer, in the same.  
General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, great or small, communicated in the same.  
The Origine of Forms and Qualities illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, in two Parts, 8ᵒ. 1666.  
A way of preserving Birds taken out of the Egg, and other small Faetus', communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of May 7th. 1666.  
An Account of a new kind of Baroscope, which may be called Statical, and of some advantages and conveniencies it hath above the Mercurial, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of July the 2d. 1666.  
A new Frigorific Experiment, showing how a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced, without the help of Snow, Ice, Hail, Wind or Nitre, and that at any time of the year, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of July 18th. 1666.  
Trials proposed to Dr. Lower for the improvement of transfusing Blood out of one live Animal into another, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 11th. 1666.  
Free Considerations about Subordinate Forms, being an Appendix to the Origine of Forms and Qualities published last year, and reprinted with this, 1667. 8ᵒ.  
A Letter to the Author of the Philosophical Transactions, giving an Information of some Experiments which he had made himself several years ago, by injecting acid Liquors into Blood, upon the occasion of those communicated by Signior Fracassati, in a Letter written from Oxford, October the 19th. 1667.  
New Experiments concerning the Relation between Light and Air, (in shining Wood and Fish) in a Letter from Oxford to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of January the 6th. 1668.  
A Continuation of the same Letter in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 10th. 1668.  
A Continuation of new Experiments, Physicomechanical, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects; The first Part. With a Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies, Oxford, 1669.  
An Invention for estimating the Weight of Water with ordinary Balances and Weights, in the Philosophical Transactions of August the 16th. 1669.  
Certain Philosophical Essays and other Tracts, a second Edition; with a Discourse about the Absolute rest of Bodies, 4o. London 1669. The first Edition had been published, Anno 1662.  
New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration, upon Ducks, Vipers, Frogs, etc. communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of August 8. 1670.  
A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of September the 12th. 1670.  
Tracts: About the Cosmical Qualities of Things: The Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions, and the bottom of the Sea; together with an Introduction to the History of particular Qualities, 8o. Oxford 1670.  
Tracts: A Discovery of the admirable Rarefaction of the Air (even without Heat:) New Observations about the duration of the Spring of the Air. New Experiments touching the condensation of the Air by mere Cold, and its compression without Mechanical Engines, and the admirably differing extensions of the same quantity of Air, rarefied and compressed, 4o. London 1670.  
An Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems, 8o. London 1672.  
Some Observations about shining Flesh, both of Veal, and a Pullet, and that without any sensible Putrefaction in those Bodies, communicated by way of Letter to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions, in the Transactions of December the 16th. 1672.  
A new Experiment concerning an effect of the varying weight of the Atmosphere upon some Bodies in the Water, the Description whereof was presented to the Lord Broncker, Anno 1671. Suggesting a conjecture, that the alterations of the very Weight of the Air, may have considerable Operations, even upon men's Sickness or Health, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 24th. 1673.  
Tracts: Containing new Experiments, touching the Relation between Flame and Air, and about Explosions. An Hydrostatical Discourse, occasioned by some Objections of Dr. Henry Moor, etc. to which is annexed an Hydrostatical Letter about a way of weighing Water in Water: New Experiments of the positive, or relative, levity of Bodies under Water: Of the Airs-Spring on Bodies under Water, and about the differing Pressure of heavy Solids and Fluids, 8o. London 1672.  
Essays of the strange Subtlety, great Efficacy, and determinate Nature of Effluviums; to which are annexed new Experiments to make the Parts of Fire and Flame, Stable and Ponderable, with Experiments about arresting and weighing of Igneous Corpuscles; and a Discovery of the perviousness of Glass to ponderable parts of Flame, 8o. London 1673.  
A Letter of September the 13th. 1673. concerning Ambergris, and its being a Vegetable Production, mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions of October the 6th. 1673.  
Tracts: Observations about the saltness of the Sea: An account of the Statical Hygroscope, and its Uses, together with an Appendix about the force of the Airs Moisture, and a Fragment about the Natural and Preternatural state of Bodies. To all which is premised a Sceptical Dialogue about the positive or privative Nature of Cold, 8o. London 1674.  
A Discourse about the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, occasionally proposed to a Friend, annexed to Another entitled, The Excellency of Theology, compared with Natural Philosophy, 8o. London 1674.  
An account of the two sorts of the Helmontian Laudanum, together with the way of the Noble Baron F. M. Van Helmont (Son to the famous John Baptista) of preparing his Laudanum, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of October 26th. 1674.  
Tracts: Containing, 1. Suspicions about some hidden Qualities of the Air, with an Appendix touching Celestial Magnets, and some other Particulars. 2. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes' Problemata de vacuo. 3. A Discourse of the Cause of Attraction by Suction, 8o. London 1674.  
Some Physico-Theological considerations about the possibility of the Resurrection, annexed to a Discourse, entitled, The Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, 8o. London 1674/1675.  
A Conjecture concerning the Bladders of Air, that are found in Fishes, communicated by A. J. and illustrated by an Experiment, suggested by the Author in the Philosophical Transactions of April the 26th. 1675.  
A New Essay-Instrument, invented and described by the Author, together with the Uses thereof, in three Parts.  
The first shows the occasion of making it, and the Hydrostatical Principles 'tis founded on.  
The second describes the Construction of the Instrument.  
The third represents the Uses, which, as relating to Metals, are 

1. To discover, whether a proposed Guinea be true, or counterfeit.  
2. To examine divers other Gold Coins, and particularly half Guinea's.  
3. To examine the new English Crown Pieces of Silver.  
4. To estimate the goodness of Tin and Pewter.  
5. To estimate Alloys of Gold and Silver, and some other Metalline Mixtures. All this maketh up the Philosophical Transactions of June 21. 1675.    
Ten new Experiments about the weakened Spring, and some unobserved Effects, of the Air, where occur not only several Trials to discover, whether the Spring of the Air, as it may divers ways be increased, so may not by other ways than Cold or Dilatation be weakened; but also some odd Experiments to show the change of Colours producible in some Solutions and Precipitations by the Operation of the Air, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December the 27th. 1675.  
An Experimental Discourse of Quicksilver growing hot with Gold, English and Latin, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February 21. 1676.  
Experiments, Notes, etc. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities, amongst which is inserted a Discourse of the Imperfections of the Chemist's Doctrine of Qualities, together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum, 8o. London 1676.  
This Discourse comprehends Notes, etc. about the Mechanical Origine and Production Of Cold.  

Of Heat.  
Of Tastes.  
Of Odours.  
Of Volatility.  
Of Fixtness.  
Of Corrosiveness.  
Of Corrosibility.  
Of Chemical Precipitation.  
Of Magnetical Qualities.  
Of Electricity.   
New Experiments about the superficial Figures of Fluids', especially of Liquors contiguous to other Liquors: Likely to conduce much to the Physical Theory of the grand System of the World, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of January the 29th. 1676/1677.  
A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 26th. 1676/1677.  
The Sceptical Chemist, of Chymico-Physical Paradoxes, touching the Experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things; to which in this Second Edition are subjoined divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles, 8o. Oxford 1680.  
A Second Continuation of new Experiments Physicomechanical, in which, various Experiments, touching the Spring of the Air, either compressed or artificial, are contained, with a Description of new Engines to perform them, 1680.  
The Aerial Noctiluca, or some new Phoenomena, and a Process of a factitious self-shining Substance, 8o. London 1680.  
The Glacial or Icy Noctiluca, with a Chemical Paradox founded on new Experiments, whence it may be made probable, that Chemical Principles may be converted one into another; 8o. London 1680.  
Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood, especially the Spirit of that Liquor, London 1684.  
Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies in two Essays: The former of the Porousness of Animal Bodies, the other of the Porousness of Solid Bodies, 8o. London 1684.  
Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters, 8ᵒ. 1684/1685.  
An Historical account of a strangely self-moving Liquor, communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of November the 26th. 1685.  
Of the Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy, to which is annexed a Discourse about the advantages of the use of Simple Medicines, proposed by way of Invitation to it, 8o. London 1685.  
An Essay of the great Effects of Languid and unheeded Motion. To which is annexed an Experimental Discourse of some unheeded Causes of the Salubrity and Insalubrity of the Air and its Effects, 8o. London 1685.  
A free Inquiry into the vulgarly received Notion of Nature, in an Essay addressed to a Friend, 8o. London 1685/1686.  
A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things. With an Appendix of some Uncommon Observations about vitiated sight, 8o. London 1687/1688.  

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Because among those that willingly read the Authors Writings, there are some that relish those most, (as most suitable to their Genius, addicted to Religious Studies) that treat of Matters relating to Divinity; the Publisher thinks fit to gratify them with a Catalogue of those Theological Books that pass for Mr. Boils, because they were ascribed to him, and never positively disowned by him; though such of them as are marked with an Asterisk, came abroad without having his Name prefixed to them.  
SEraphic Love, five or six times printed, but first published in the year 1660. 8ᵒ.  
Considerations about the Style of the Scripture, whereof the First Edition was published in the year 1662. in English, and afterwards turned into, and several times printed in, Latin, 8ᵒ.  
Occasional Reflections on several Subjects, with a Preliminary Discourse of the Way of meditating there Exemplified; First published in the year 1665, and afterwards turned into Latin, but not yet printed in that Language, 8ᵒ.  
Of the Excellency of the Study of Theology compared with that of Natural Philosophy. Printed in the year 1674. 8ᵒ.  
Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion. To which is annexed a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection. Printed in the year 1675. 8ᵒ.  
A Treatise of Things above Reason. To which are annexed some Advices about things that are said to transcend Reason. Printed in the year 1681, in English, and afterwards translated into Latin, but not yet printed in that Language, 8o.  
Of the Veneration that Man's Intellect owes to God. Printed in the year 1685.  
The Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus. London 1687.  
The End.