Some of the following vocabulary /substantive concepts may be learnt during lessons on Boyle and the Scientific Revolution. The list is meant for teachers' use in the first instance and additions will inevitably be required.
Definitions can be found in a large and comprehensive English dictionary; a useful glossary of terms also appears in J. Henry, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, Studies in European History, (Basingstoke, 1997), (2nd edition, 2002), pp. 119-129.
A
abstract ideas
account
AD
admiral
advocates
ague
ailments
air pump
alchemical
alchemy
amanuensis
ambassador
anachronism
anatomy
anecdote
anno domini
annotate
antiquarian
apothecaries
Apothecaries
aqua fortis (nitric acid)
aqua regia (nitric acid and hydrochloric acid)
archive
aristocratic
Aristotelian approaches using the theories of Aristotle
Aristotle
astronomy
atheistic
atomic structure
Atomical
Atomist
Atomistic
Atomists
autobiography
axiom
B
Baconian
barometer
BC
Big Bang
biography
black bile
Blood
C
Cartesian
cartography
chemical
chemical physicians (see ‘Paracelsus')
chemical remedies
chemist
choleric
Christians
chronology
cinnabar (mercuric sulphide)
cipher
classical antiquity
Claudius Galen (c. 130-201 AD)
colleague
collegiate
colony
combustion
contemporaries
contemporary
context
Copernican
Copernicus
corpuscles
corpuscularian
Corpuscularist/corpuscular
corroboration
cosmological
cosmology
credibility
crucible
culture
D
Darwinism
deductive
Democritus (c. 460-c. 370 BC)
Descartes
diagnosis
diaphoretics
diffidence
disseminate
Divinity
doctrine
documentary
dogmatic
E
earl
early modern
early modern period - 1500-1800
edition
efficacy
efficacy
elixir
emetic
eminence
empirical
empiricism – based on facts and experience
Enlightenment
Epicurus (341-270 BC)
esoteric
essential forms and qualities
establishment
evidence
evolution
evolved
excretion
Experiment
experimental
experimentation
experiments
expulsion
Externalist
extract
F
facilitated
facilities
fact-gathering
fellow
focal point
forms and qualities
formulate
four elements
four humours, sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric and the melancholic.
Francis Bacon
G
Galenic
Galenic physicians
Galenism
Genesis
George Thompson
H
herbal
Historiography
humour
hypothesis
I
Iatrochemist
Ideal
induction
inductive
infer
informant
Internalist
Interpretation
irrational
J
journal
laxatives
lectureship
L
logical
M
magic
manuscript
matter
mechanical hypothesis
Mechanics
Mechanistic
medications
medicinal
medieval period
melancholic
membership
mercantile
merchant
mercury
metallurgy
methodology
microscope
microscopes
N
Natural philosophy
navy
nobility
O
objective
observation
Occultism
oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid)
Optics
originate
origins
orthodox
P
pamphlet
Paracelsianism
Paracelsians or ‘chemical physicians'
Paracelsus (1493-1541)
patron
Pharmacology
phenomena
phenomenon
Philosopher's Stone
Philosophy
phlegm
phlegm phlegmatic
phlegmatic
physic
physical
physician
physicist
Physiology
Plato
preconceived
precursor
primary
printed book
professorship
proposition
Protestant
provenance
Ptolemaic
Ptolemy
Q
quantitative
R
rational
reagent
Reason
receiver
receptive
remedies
Remedy
Renaissance
renown
repository
reprint
reputation
resource
respiration
Restoration
retort
Robert Boyle
Royal Society
S
saccharum saturni (sugar of Saturn or lead acetate)
sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride)
sanguine
scepticism
scholarly journal
scholastic
Science
Scientific instruments
secondary
serpent
Seventeenth century 1600-1700
Socio-economic
Socio-political
solar system
source
species
spiritus fumans (stannic chloride)
statistics
subjective
sublimation
subscribe
subscription
subversive
sulphur
Supernatural
Superstitious
Surgery
symbol
synthesis
synthesis
T
technology
Teleological
telescope
temperature
theologians
theology
theory
therapy
thermometer
Theses
Thesis
thorax
transactions
transcended
transcript
transcription
Transformation
Transmutation
Transmute
traveller
treatise
U
universe
university
utility
V
vacuum
Vesalius (1514-64)
Victorian
visual sources
Voluntarism
vomiting
W
West Indies
Whiggism
William Harvey (1578-1657)
X, Y, Z
yellow bile