Template:RQ:Boyle Cold
1663, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Boyle Cold/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert Boyle's work New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold (1683); the 1st edition (London: […] John Crook, […], 1665; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|chapter=
– the name of the chapter quoted from. If quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
Parameter value | Result |
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*Advertisement | An Advertisement (appears after page 266) |
*Advertisement to the Readers | An Advertisement to the Readers of the Following Experiments, by the Author of the Foregoing History (appears after page 324) |
Appendix | An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold |
*Catalogue | A Catalogue of All the Philosophical Works Published by Our Author (appears after "An Advertisement") |
Freezing | An Account of Freezing Made in December and January, 1662 (by Christopher Merret) |
*Preface | The Authors Preface |
*The Publisher to the Ingenious Reader | The Publisher to the Ingenious Reader |
*The Publisher to the Reader | The Publisher to the Reader |
- As the chapters marked with an asterisk (*) are unpaginated, use
|2=
or|page=
to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example:- If the URL is
https://books.google.com/books?id=2p1kAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7
, specify|page=7
. - If the URL is
https://books.google.com/books?id=2p1kAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA266-IA1
, specify|page=1
. - If the URL is
https://books.google.com/books?id=2p1kAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PP2
, specify|page=2
.
- If the URL is
|section=
– the name of a section quoted from, if a chapter is subdivided into sections.|para=
or|paragraph=
– the paragraph number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. (The page numbers restart from 1 in "An Account of Freezing Made in December and January, 1662" and "An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold".) 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).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|footer=
– a comment on 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
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Boyle Cold|chapter=Title IX. Experiments in Consort, Touching the Bubbles from which the Levity of Ice is Supposed to Proceed.|paragraph=1|page=95|passage=[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently '''extant''' above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to ''Iſland'', ''Greenland'', and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts.}}
; or{{RQ:Boyle Cold|Title IX. Experiments in Consort, Touching the Bubbles from which the Levity of Ice is Supposed to Proceed.|paragraph=1|95|[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently '''extant''' above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to ''Iſland'', ''Greenland'', and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts.}}
- Result:
- 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title IX. Experiments in Consort, Touching the Bubbles from which the Levity of Ice is Supposed to Proceed.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 95:
- [W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Boyle Cold|chapter=Appendix|section=Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title|paragraph=2|page=24|passage=Lieutenant G. ''Drummon'' confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only '''diſbark'd''',) upon very intenſe Froſts; {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1663, Robert Boyle, “An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. [Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title.]”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 2, page 24:
- Lieutenant G. Drummon confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only diſbark'd,) upon very intenſe Froſts; […]
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