Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E650001-100

An account of Philaretus during his Minority

Author: Robert Boyle

Background details and bibliographic information

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Thomas Birch

Funded by University College, Cork and
School of History

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 20847 words

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(2011) (2013)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E650001-100

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Sources

    Manuscript source
  1. London, Royal Society, RB/1/37/39. [Thanks to Library Manager Rupert Baker from the Royal Society for this information.]
    Editions and select bibliography
  1. Thomas Birch (ed): see details below. A photomechanical reprint of his edition was published in 1966 by Olms.
  2. Eustace Budgell (ed), Memoirs of the life and character of the late earl of Orrery and of the Boyles (London 1732; the third edition was published as 'Memoirs of the lives and characters of the illustrious family of the Boyles', London 1737).
  3. R. E. W. Maddison, Studies in the Life of Robert Boyle F.R.S.; Part 1: Robert Boyle and some of his foreign visitors, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 9 no. 1, Ocober 1951, 1–35, esp. 22–29.
  4. G. H. Turnbull, 'Samuel Hartlib's Influence on the Early History of the Royal Society', in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 10/2 (April 1953) 101–130.
  5. Roger Pilkington, Robert Boyle : father of chemistry (London: J. Murray 1959).
  6. Anna Maria Crinò, Un principe di Toscana in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel 1669 (Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura 1968) (esp. 119–121: A visit to Robert Boyle].
  7. Nicholas Canny, The upstart earl. A study of the social and mental world of Richard Boyle first earl of Cork 1566–1643. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
  8. Rose-Mary Sargent, 'Robert Boyle's Baconian Inheritance', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 17 (1986) 469–86.
  9. Rose-Mary Sargent, The diffident naturalist: Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
  10. Peter R. Anstey, The philosophy of Robert Boyle. (London; New York: Routledge, 2000).
  11. Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis (eds), The Works of Robert Boyle (London 1999–2000).
  12. Michael Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe (eds), The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636–1691. (London; Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 2001).
  13. Hiro Hirai, 'Anatomizing the Sceptical Chymist: Robert Boyle and the Secret of his Early Sources on the Growth of Metals', Early Science and Medicine 10:4 (2005) 453–477.
  14. Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and science. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
  15. For a full bibliography see the website of the Robert Boyle Project at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/researchers/boyle_bibliography.htm.
    Internet resources
  1. The Robert Boyle Project based at Birkbeck College, University of London, directed by Professor Michael Hunter, has an extensive website at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/ where a selection of the Boyle papers can be viewed online.
  2. The Waterford County Library webpages on Robert Boyle at http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/localstudies/waterfordscientists/robertboyle1627-1691/.
  3. The Royal Society Libary (http://royalsociety.ac.uk/library/) holds Robert Boyle's manuscripts.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Thomas Birch, An account of Philaretus during his Minority in The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, in five volumes; to which is prefixed the life of the author [...]. , London, Printed for A. Millar, opposite Catharine-Street, in the Strand (1744) volume 1 page 6–25

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The present text covers pages 6–25 of volume 1.

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Profile Description

Created: Section 1 by Robert Boyle; section 2 by Thomas Birch Date range: c.1648–1649; c.1743.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English, edited by an eighteenth-century editor.
Language: [FR] Some words and phrases are in French.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.

Revision History