Author:Kenelm Digby

Sir Kenelm Digby
(1603–1665)

Sir Kenelm Digby

Works

• A Conference with a Lady about Choice of Religion (1638)
• Sir Kenelm Digby's Honour maintained (1641)
• Observations upon Religio Medici, occasionally written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knt. (1643)
• Observations on the 22nd Stanza in the Ninth Canto of the Second Book of Spenser's “Faery Queene,” (1644)
• A Treatise of the Nature of Bodies (1644)
• A Treatise declaring the Operations and Nature of Man's Soul, out of which the Immortality of reasonable Souls is evinced (1644)
• Institutionum Peripateticorum libri quinque cum Appendice Theologica de Origine Mundi (1651), probably for the most part the work of Thomas White
• Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, concerning Religion (1651)
• A Discourse concerning Infallibility in Religion, written by Sir Kenelme Digby to the Lord George Digby, eldest sonne of the Earle of Bristol (1652)
• A Treatise of Adhering to God, written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon, put into English by Sir Kenelme Digby, Kt.(1653)
• A late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy. With Instructions how to make the said Powder. (1658)
• A Discourse concerning the Vegetation of Plants, spoken by Sir Kenelme Digby at Gresham College, 23 Jan. 1660–1, at a Meeting for Promoting Philosophical Knowledge by Experiment (1661)
• Private Memoirs (1827)
• Journal of the Scanderoon Voyage in 1628 (1868)
• Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers in the possession of Henry A. Bright,’ with notes by Mr. G. F. Warner (1877)

Works about Digby

• "Digby, Sir Kenelm," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Digby, Kenelm (1603-1665)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Digby, Sir Kenelm," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sir Kenelm Digby," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)