Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy: An Essay, with Selections from His Writings, Band 10

Life -- The New Learning and Its Methods -- The Mechanical Philosophy -- Chemistry -- Pneumatics -- The New Learning -- In Defense of Experimental Essays -- The Aim of Scientific Books -- The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis -- Natural Religion -- The Exellency of Theology -- Of the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy -- Vugarly Recieved Notion of Nature -- Final Causes of Natural Things -- On the Practical Uses of Natural Philosophy -- On Hydrostatics -- A Letter on His Method of Work -- The Mechanical Philosophy -- An Assessment of Aristotelianism -- The Corpuscular Philosphy -- The Structure of Matter -- The Theory of Elements -- The Transmutation of Aristotelian Elements -- The Mechanical Explanation of Qualities -- Heat -- Cohesion, Fludity, Firmness -- Corrosiveness -- Chemical Precipitation -- Gravity -- Magnetism -- Electricity -- Color -- Fire and Flame -- Chemistry -- Early Chemistry -- The Uses of Chemistry -- Chemical Experiment -- Indicators -- Phosphorus -- Mineral Waters -- Pneumatics -- New Experiments Physico-Mechanical -- The Torricellian Experiment -- Boyle's Law -- The Astonishing Weight of the Atmosphere -- The Resistance of the Air -- The Motion of Pendulums -- The Falling of a Light Body -- Sound and the Air -- On the Nature of the Boyleian Vacuum -- What is a Vacuum? -- An Attempt to Examine the Cartesian Ether -- Air, Light and Flame -- The Burning Candle -- The Aerial Noctiluca -- Respiration -- The Composition of the Atmosphere -- Some Considerations of Experimental Technique -- On Gauges -- Some Technical Considerations on the Torricellian Experiment.