The text of Robert Boyle's 'Designe about natural history'
By: edited by Michael Hunter and Peter Anstey.
Contributors: Hunter, Michael Cyril William.; Anstey, Peter R., 1962-; Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677.
Series: Occasional papers / Robert Boyle Project -- no. 3; Occasional papers (Robert Boyle Project) -- no. 3.
Publisher: Robert Boyle Project, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
ISBN-13: 9780955160820
Subjects: Natural history -- Authorship
Other titles: Designe about natural history; Design about natural history
Work titles: Designe about natural history
Notes: "Text of Boyle's prescriptions for writing a natural history ... the principal component is a document taking the form of a letter addressed to Henry Oldenburg dated 13 June 1666"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text and commentary in English; includes some Latin passages with English translations.