1st Edition
Boyle Studies Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91)
By Michael Hunter
Copyright 2015
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged, but the complexity and eclecticism of his ideas has also become increasingly apparent. This volume presents an important group of studies of Boyle by Michael Hunter, the leading expert on Boyle’s life and thought. It forms a sequel to two previous... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Boyle’s Early Intellectual Evolution; Chapter 3 Boyle and the Early Royal Society; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 The Disquieted Mind in Casuistry and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9 ‘Physica Peregrinans, or the Travelling Naturalist’;
Biography
Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
