Primary Sources

[BP]	Boyle Papers: The Boyle Papers, Boyle Letters, and Boyle Notebooks in the Royal Society Library, The Royal Society, London; now available on microfilm, Michael Hunter (ed.), as Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle, Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1990.
[BW]	Boyle Works: The Works of Robert Boyle, M. Hunter, and E. B. Davis (eds.), 14 vols, London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999–2000.
[BC]	Boyle Correspondence: The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, M. Hunter, A. Clericuzio, and L. Principe (eds.), 6 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.
[BOA]	Boyle on Atheism: Boyle on Atheism, J. J. MacIntosh (ed.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

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