[Revised entry by J. J. MacIntosh and Peter Anstey on December 14, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography] Boyle was one of the leading intellectual figures of the seventeenth century and an important influence on Locke and Newton (Anstey 2018). He was an experimental philosopher, unwilling to construct abstract theories to which his experimental results had to conform. "Our Boyle," Oldenburg wrote to Spinoza, "is one of those who are distrustful enough of their reasoning to wish that the phenomena should agree with it" (Hall a Hall 1965 - 1977, 2:38). Boyle, a champion of both the corpuscularian doctrine and the Baconian...