Template:RQ:Boyle New Experiments/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert Boyle's work New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects (1st edition, 1660), and A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. (1st edition, 1669). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1660).
• Continuation, Part I (1st edition, 1669; archived at the Internet Archive).

The 1st edition of A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects: The Second Part: […] (London: […] Miles Flesher; for Richard Davis, […], 1682; →OCLC) does not appear to be currently available online. Use {{RQ:Boyle Works}}, volume IV, to quote from it.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |version= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from Continuation, Part I (1st edition, 1669), specify |version=C1.
• |chapter= – if quoting from one of the chapters of the work indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

Parameter value	Result
1st edition (1660)
Friendly Reader	Friendly Reader (by R. Sh.)
Summary	A Summary of the Chief Matters Treated of in This Epistolical Discourse
To the Reader	To the Reader
Continuation Part I, 1st edition (1669)
The Preface	The Preface
Advertisements	Some Advertisements Touching the Engine It Self

• As the above chapters are unpaginated, use |1= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books or the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=FoczusPjlaoC&pg=PP3 specify |page=3; and if it is https://archive.org/details/chepfl-lipr-AXA74/page/n11/mode/1up specify |page=11.
• The main part of the 1st edition of the work is generally not divided into chapters. If desired, use |chapter= to specify the marginal note of the section quoted from. As the main part of Continuation, Part I is divided into experiments, the parameter can be used to specify the experiment number in uppercase Roman numerals and the name of the experiment, like this: |chapter=Experiment I. About the Raising of Mercury to a Great Height in an Open Tube, by the Spring of a Little Included Air..

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

1st edition (1660)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Boyle New Experiments|chapter=[Experiment 37]|page=309|passage=And vve particularly remember, that, being at ſome diſtance from ''London'' one Night, that the People, upon a very vvell-come Occaſion, teſtified their Joy by numerous '''Bon-fires'''; though, by reaſon of the Interpoſition of the Houſes, vve could not ſee the Fires themſelves, yet vve could plainly ſee the Air all enlighten'd over and near the City; vvhich argu'd, that the lucid Beams ſhot upvvards from the Fires, met in the Air with the Corpuſcles opacous enough to reflect them to our Eyes.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Boyle New Experiments|chapter=[Experiment 37]|309|And vve particularly remember, that, being at ſome diſtance from ''London'' one Night, that the People, upon a very vvell-come Occaſion, teſtified their Joy by numerous '''Bon-fires'''; though, by reaſon of the Interpoſition of the Houſes, vve could not ſee the Fires themſelves, yet vve could plainly ſee the Air all enlighten'd over and near the City; vvhich argu'd, that the lucid Beams ſhot upvvards from the Fires, met in the Air with the Corpuſcles opacous enough to reflect them to our Eyes.}}
• Result:
  • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 37]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 309:

    And vve particularly remember, that, being at ſome diſtance from London one Night, that the People, upon a very vvell-come Occaſion, teſtified their Joy by numerous Bon-fires; though, by reaſon of the Interpoſition of the Houſes, vve could not ſee the Fires themſelves, yet vve could plainly ſee the Air all enlighten'd over and near the City; vvhich argu'd, that the lucid Beams ſhot upvvards from the Fires, met in the Air with the Corpuſcles opacous enough to reflect them to our Eyes.

Continuation, Part I (1st edition, 1669)

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Boyle New Experiments|version=C1|chapter=Experiment XLVII. About an Attempt Made to Measure the Force of the Spring of Included Air, and Examine a Conjecture about the Difference of Its Strength in Unequally Broad Mouth'd Vessels.|page=160|passage=[T]vvas very difficult to procure a Bladder ſmall and fine enough for that litle Cylinder; and that one, vvhich at length vve procured, vvould not continue '''ſtanch''' for many Tryals, but vvould after a vvhile part vvith a litle Air in the vvell exhauſted Receiver, vvhen tvvas clog'd vvith the utmoſt VVeight it could ſuſtain: but vvhilſt it continued '''ſtanch''' vve made one fair Tryal vvith it, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1669, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XLVII. About an Attempt Made to Measure the Force of the Spring of Included Air, and Examine a Conjecture about the Difference of Its Strength in Unequally Broad Mouth’d Vessels.”, in A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Henry Hall, printer to the University, for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 160:

    [T]vvas very difficult to procure a Bladder ſmall and fine enough for that litle Cylinder; and that one, vvhich at length vve procured, vvould not continue ſtanch for many Tryals, but vvould after a vvhile part vvith a litle Air in the vvell exhauſted Receiver, vvhen tvvas clog'd vvith the utmoſt VVeight it could ſuſtain: but vvhilſt it continued ſtanch vve made one fair Tryal vvith it, […]