Excellencies of Robert Boyle Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Robert Boyle: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text: Conventions, Terminology, Transcriptions

The Excellency of Theology, Compared with Natural Philosophy

About The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis

Appendix A: People Mentioned in the Text

Appendix B: Boyle's "Corpuscularianism"

Appendix C: Aristotle's Arguments against the Void

Appendix D: The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis

Appendix E: Boyle on Fame

Appendix F: Future Contingents

Appendix G: Moral Demonstrations

Appendix H: Swift's "Broomstick" and Boyle's Occasional Reflections

Appendix I: Coke, Boyle, and Edwards on Testimony

Appendix J: Review of the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis (May 1674)

Appendix K: John Evelyn to Boyle (20 June, 1774)

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