Editing Robert Boyle (section)

==Important works==
[[File:Sceptical chymist 1661 Boyle Title page AQ18 (3).jpg|thumb|right|Title page of ''The Sceptical Chymist'' (1661)]]
[[File:Boyle'sSelfFlowingFlask.png|thumb|Boyle's self-flowing flask, a [[perpetual motion machine]], appears to fill itself through [[siphon]] action ("hydrostatic perpetual motion") and involves the "hydrostatic paradox".<ref>{{cite book | title = Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession | author = Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume | publisher = Adventures Unlimited Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 1-931882-51-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=022yYXnS_GQC&q=boyle%27s-perpetual-motion-scheme&pg=PA94 }}</ref> This is not possible in reality; a siphon requires its "output" to be lower than the "input".]]
[[File:Boyle-2-2.jpg|thumb|Title page of "''New Experiments and Observations upon Cold"'' (1665)]]
The following are some of the more important of his works:<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|wstitle=Boyle, Robert|inline=1}}</ref>
* 1660 – ''New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects''
* 1661 – ''[[The Sceptical Chymist]]''
* 1662 – Whereunto is Added a Defence of the Authors Explication of the Experiments, Against the Obiections of [[Franciscus Linus]] and [[Thomas Hobbes]] (a book-length addendum to the second edition of ''New Experiments Physico-Mechanical'')
* 1663 – ''Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy'' (followed by a second part in 1671)
* 1664 – ''Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, with Observations on a Diamond that Shines in the Dark''
* 1665 – ''New Experiments and Observations upon Cold''
* 1666 – ''Hydrostatical Paradoxes''<ref>Cf. Hunter (2009), p. 147. "It forms a kind of sequel to ''Spring of the Air'' ... but although Boyle notes he might have published it as part of an appendix to that work, it formed a self-contained whole, dealing with atmospheric pressure with particular reference to liquid masses"</ref>
* 1666 – ''Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy''. (A continuation of his work on the spring of air demonstrated that a reduction in ambient pressure could lead to bubble formation in living tissue. This description of a [[Viperidae|viper]] in a [[vacuum]] was the first recorded description of [[decompression sickness]].)<ref name=acottHx>{{cite journal |last=Acott |first=C. |title=A brief history of diving and decompression illness. |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627230124/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=27 June 2008 |access-date=17 April 2009 }}</ref>
* 1669 – ''A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects''
* 1670 – ''Tracts about the Cosmical Qualities of Things, the Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions, the Bottom of the Sea, &tc. with an Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities''
* 1672 – ''Origin and Virtues of Gems''
* 1673 – Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums
* 1674 – Two volumes of tracts on the Saltiness of the Sea, [[Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air]], Cold, Celestial Magnets 
* 1674 – ''Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo''
* 1676 – Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Particular Qualities, including some notes on electricity and magnetism
* 1678 – ''Observations upon an artificial Substance that Shines without any Preceding Illustration''
* 1680 – ''The Aerial [[Noctiluca]]''
* 1682 – New Experiments and Observations upon the Icy Noctiluca (a further continuation of his work on the air)
* 1684 – ''Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood''
* 1685 – Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of [[Mineral Water]]s
* 1686 – ''A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature''
* 1690 – ''Medicina Hydrostatica''
* 1691 – ''Experimenta et Observationes Physicae''

Among his religious and philosophical writings were:
* 1648 (1659) – ''Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God'', often known by its running head ''Seraphic Love'', written in 1648, but not published until 1659
* 1663 – ''Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H''[''oly''] ''Scriptures''
* 1664 – ''Excellence of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy''
* 1665 – Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, which was ridiculed by [[Jonathan Swift|Swift]] in [[Meditation Upon a Broomstick]], and by [[Samuel Butler (1612–1680)|Butler]] in An Occasional Reflection on Dr Charlton's Feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College
* 1675 – Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, with a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection
* 1687 – [[Theodora and Didymus|''The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus'']], [[Theodora (Handel)#Context, analysis, and performance history|major source for Handel's Oratorio ''Theodora'']]
* 1690 – ''[[The Christian Virtuoso]]''