Robert Boyle

by Flora Masson

I gratefully acknowledge the unfailing courtesy and helpfulness of the Librarians of the Edinburgh Public Library, the Signet Library, the University Library, and the Library of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Flora Masson.

Edinburgh, March 1914.

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I	His Birth and Family	[1]
II	An Irish Childhood	[15]
III	Schooldays at Eton	[34]
IV	The Manor of Stalbridge	[55]
V	The House of the Savoy	[70]
VI	Robyn goes Abroad	[85]
VII	The Debacle	[99]
VIII	In England Again	[122]
IX	The Deare Squire	[140]
X	A Kind of Elysium	[159]
XI	Hermetic Thoughts	[170]
XII	Oxford: a Learned Junto	[189]
XIII	Politics and Philosophy	[206]
XIV	The Restoration and the Royal Society	[226]
XV	The Plague and the Fire	[246]
XVI	A New London	[267]
XVII	The House in Pall Mall	[282]
	Index	[311]

ROBERT BOYLE

CHAPTER I
HIS BIRTH AND FAMILY