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Malpighi, Marcello, 1628-1694. [Letters, manuscripts and drawings, some addressed to Robert Boyle and Henry Oldenburg, and some from members of the Royal Society of London to Malpighi.

Title: [Letters, manuscripts and drawings, some addressed to Robert Boyle and Henry Oldenburg, and some from members of the Royal Society of London to Malpighi. 16--]

ArchivalResource: [150] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4329563 View

Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687. Indians converted or historical collections of the Indians in New England ..., 1674.

Title: Indians converted or historical collections of the Indians in New England ..., 1674.

Original ms. written by Daniel Gookin, colonial magistrate, in 1674. Gookin discussed the state of Native American affairs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, especially the culture, language, religion, and customs of Native Americans. Among the tribes he focused on were the Massachuset, the Narraganset, and the Pequot. Gookin described his work and the efforts of John Eliot, James Fitch, and Thomas Mayhew in culturally assimilating Native Americans, work supported by Robert Boyle and the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18025660 View

Science in the American British colonies collection, 1672-1766.

Title: Science in the American British colonies collection, 1672-1766.

Photocopies of letters relating to the establishment of the American Academy of Sciences, the study of astronomy, the presentation by John Winthrop of the first telescope in the colonies to Harvard College, and other scientific topics. Correspondents include William Avery, James Bowdoin, Robert Boyle, Thomas Brattle, John Canton, James Jurin, Increase Mather, Urian Oakes, Thomas Robie, Ezra Stiles, and John Winthrop.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981038 View

Locke, John, 1632-1704. Collection of autograph letters signed (24), a letter signed, and a document signed : London and Oates [near Harlow, Essex], to Cornelius Lyde and others, 1678 July 26-1703 June 28.

Title: Collection of autograph letters signed (24), a letter signed, and a document signed : London and Oates [near Harlow, Essex], to Cornelius Lyde and others, 1678 July 26-1703 June 28.

A collection of 24 autograph letters signed from Locke: two letters are to Nicholas Toinard, one letter is to Edward Clarke, and the remainder of the letters are to Cornelius Lyde. The collection also includes one letter signed written by an amanuensis (MA 231.21) and an autograph document signed (MA 231.4) in which Locke nominates Lyde to be his attorney. Most of the letters discuss currency problems and the management of Locke's estate. Items in the collection are described in 26 individual records (MA 231.1-26).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (26 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270591652 View

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1666.

A.L.S. (1665/6 Jan. 18, Oxford) to the Earl of Burlington requesting the appointment of some trusty person to receive Boyle's Irish rents.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9925796 View

Royal Society (Great Britain). Early Letters and Classified Papers, 1606-1740.

Title: Early Letters and Classified Papers, 1606-1740.

The letters collect the Society's official correspondence from its founding to 1740, and includes correspondence by the period's most famous scientific names, including: Robert Boyle, Jean Dominique Cassini, Magnus Celsius, John Flamsteed, Regnier de Graaf, Stephen Gray, Edmund Halley, Johannes Hevelius, Robert Hooke, Christian Huygens, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Martin Lister, John Locke, Cotton Mather, William Molyneux, Isaac Newton, Franz de le Böe Sylvius, Raymond Vieussens, and John Wallis. The Classified Papers assemble original papers, letters, and memoranda submitted to the Society. The guardbooks are broken into 25 classifications that cover a phenomenal range of early scientific exploration:

ArchivalResource: 4,237 letters, 39 guardbooks (volumes of mounted papers).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80601758 View

Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687. An hytorical [sic] [acco]unt of the doing[s] & sufferings of [the] Christian Indians in New England, in the yeares 1675: 1676/1677 / impartialy drawne by one wel aquainted with that affayre and presented unto the Right Honble the Corporation residing in London appointed by the Kings most exelent matie for promoting the gospel among the Indians in America.

Title: An hytorical [sic] [acco]unt of the doing[s] & sufferings of [the] Christian Indians in New England, in the yeares 1675: 1676/1677 / impartialy drawne by one wel aquainted with that affayre and presented unto the Right Honble the Corporation residing in London appointed by the Kings most exelent matie for promoting the gospel among the Indians in America. 1677.

In the fall of 1677 Daniel Gookin wrote his Historical account ... as a vindication of the Praying or Christian Indians role during King Philip's War (1675-1676).

ArchivalResource: [4], 99, [3] p. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35395256 View

Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687. An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in N. England in the years 1675, 1676, 1677

Title: An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in N. England in the years 1675, 1676, 1677

In the fall of 1677 Daniel Gookin wrote his Historical account ... as a vindication of the Praying or Christian Indians role during King Philip's War (1675-1676). T.p. also includes Jared Sparks's account of how Gookin's manuscript was obtained and Samuel Drake's reasons for making a second copy of the manuscript.

ArchivalResource: 128, 13, [16] p. ; 21 cm.

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991327588805867 View

Sir Isaac Newton: Letter to Robert Boyle, 1679

Title: Sir Isaac Newton: Letter to Robert Boyle 1679

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8537 View

John Farquhar Fulton papers, 1892-1988, 1920-1960

Title: John Farquhar Fulton papers 1892-1988 1920-1960

The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, writings, photographs, and memorabilia, which document the career of John Farquhar Fulton as a neurophysiologist, medical historian, and bibliophile. The files also include personal and professional letters which reflect his involvement in organizations and projects including his work with the National Research Council, particularly in aviation medicine and in editing a medical history of World War II. Fulton's writings concern physiological and medical discoveries and those who made them. His close association with Harvey Cushing resulted in voluminous files on major writing and editing projects. Correspondence with family and colleagues reflects his travels, hospitality, and his collecting interests. Fulton's teaching and research are only sparsely represented in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 131.75 linear feet (319 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1236 View

Maddison Collection, 1490-c.1984

Title: Maddison Collection 1490-c.1984

ArchivalResource: 92 linear metres

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1089-ukc/maddison View

[Robert Boyle, biographical materials]

Title: [Robert Boyle, biographical materials] 1920-

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21289836 View

Eliot, John, 1604-1690. Natick Indian grammar, 1666.

Title: Natick Indian grammar, 1666.

Peter Stephen Du Ponceau's ms. copy of John Eliot's rules of grammar for the Natick (Massachuset) Indian language. Eliot addresses his work to Robert Boyle, Governor of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England who commissioned Eliot's work to help facilitate the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17656772 View

Robert Boyle: Letters from him, 1678-1682

Title: Robert Boyle: Letters from him 1678-1682

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8524 View

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Praelectiones Physicae : manuscript, [17--].

Title: Praelectiones Physicae : manuscript, [17--].

Course of lectures on natural philosophy and physics.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (152 leaves) : paper, col. ill. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122614681 View

Francis Nicholson Papers, 1680-1721.

Title: Francis Nicholson Papers, 1680-1721.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00113.xml View

Hetherington, J. A course of hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments... : notebook, 1711.

Title: A course of hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments... : notebook, 1711.

The notebook includes lecture notes, summaries of experiments performed and their results as well as diagrams and drawings of various apparatus. More specifically, Hetherington references the air pump, and several scientists including Robert Boyle, Otto von Guericke, Francis Hauksbee, and Evangelista Torricelli.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume, 23 cm, 291 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/516233949 View

Nicholson, Francis, 1655-1728. Papers, 1680-1721.

Title: Papers, 1680-1721.

The collection documents Nicholson's relations with the College of William and Mary; his infatuation for Lucy Burwell; colonial administration; addresses to the crown; church affairs; and Nicholson's feud with James Blair. The collection includes "Treatise on the Flora and Fauna of Virginia 1680," by Reverend John Banister; a letter from Blair re Robert Boyle's request to the college; letters from John Locke to Nicholson and Blair; Blair's 1703 "Memorial" re troubles in Virginia; petition against Nicholson (1703); and a draft letter from Nicholson to the Bishop of London, Henry Compton re charges against him. Among the correspondents are Lewis Burwell, Benjamin Harrison, the Reverend Mungo Ingles, Richard Ingoldsby, the Reverend Owen Jones, Philip Ludwell, Lord Nottingham, Colonel Robert Quary, Lieutenant John Riggs, and Lord Weymouth.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 83 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25176172 View

Warwick, Mary Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. An abridgment of the Lady Warwick's diary, 1666-1672.

Title: An abridgment of the Lady Warwick's diary, 1666-1672.

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a copy of the diary of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, between 1666 and 1672. The manuscript intersperses records of Lady Warwick's daily social activities with her religious meditations. In October 1667, for example, she meditates in the morning, and then goes to London to dine with the Lord Chamberlain and to wait on the Queen and the Duchess of York. Elsewhere, she attends family prayer; reports on news that the fleet is engaged in battle; hears of the fire in London in 1666; goes to London to visit her sister Katherine, Lady Ranelagh, and her brother, Robert Boyle, as well as dines with friends; and performs charitable work. Many of her entries refer to her troubles with her husband, who frequently berates her; she also records his bouts of illness and her time spend tending him. Meanwhile, she attends chapel and meditates daily on such subjects as death, sin, and various passages in Scripture. The manuscript also contains several annotations in a later hand, in pencil.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (92 p.) ; 29 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177396 View