Robert Boyle Reconsidered
Robert Boyle Reconsidered

Author: Michael Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521892674

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This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and theology, bringing out the subtlety and complexity of his ideas. Particular attention is given to Boyle's interest in alchemy and to other facets of his ideas that might initially seem surprising in a leading advocate of the mechanical philosophy. Many of the essays use material from among Boyle's extensive manuscripts, which have recently been catalogued for the first time. The introduction surveys the state of Boyle studies and deploys the findings of the essays to offer a reevaluation of Boyle. The book also includes a complete bibliography of writings on Boyle since 1940.

Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason
Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason

Author: Jan W. Wojcik

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521525220

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A study of Boyle's epistemology, revealing the theological context of his views on reason's limits.

The Boyle Papers
The Boyle Papers

Author: Michael Cyril William Hunter

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780754655688

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The papers, letters and ancillary manuscripts of the influential scientist, Robert Boyle (1627-91) have been at the Royal Society since 1769--a catalogue of them first published in 1992. This volume presents that catalogue in completely revised form, updated to do justice to the extensive use made of the archive in the definitive editions of Boyle's Works and Correspondence published between 1999 and 2001. The book also includes studies of the history of the archive and its components, in which significant conclusions are drawn about the development of Boyle's ideas. This book will be indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in Boyle.

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 1
The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 1

Author: Michael Hunter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1040249973

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Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the first seven volumes of a 14-volume set. All texts are fully annotated and comprehensively indexed. Works originally in Latin are presented in their contemporary English translations.

The Philosophy of Robert Boyle
The Philosophy of Robert Boyle

Author: Peter R. Anstey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1134592027

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First Published in 2004. This book presents the first integrated treatment of the mechanical or corpuscular philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. It focuses on the concepts central to Boyle’s philosophy, including the theory of matter and its qualities, causation, laws of nature, motion and the incorporeal. The book is divided into two parts—the first examining the manner in which Boyle distinguished between various types of qualities, his view on the perception of these qualities and the ontological status of the sensible qualities. The second part examines Boyle’s mechanism in general. Through detailed examination of Boyle’s conceptions of motion, laws and space, it is argued that Boyle upholds a unique view of the causal interaction of natural bodies.