Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends

Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends

Author: Michael Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1000161684

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The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.


Fallen Languages

Fallen Languages

Author: Robert Markley

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1501744623

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According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the rise of science to the rise of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly. Focusing on the crises of representation in the discourse of physico-theology in English natural philosophy from 1660 to 1740, Markley demonstrates the crucial role played by theology in the development of modern science.


Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin

Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin

Author: James Force

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998-11-16

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9004247459

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Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy. This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from around the world in a long series of academic conferences and learned meetings which helped transform the field from one of solitary endeavour into a 'Republic of Letters'. Publications by Richard H. Popkin: • Isaac la Peyrère (1596-1676): His Life, Work and Influence, ISBN: 978 90 04 08157 4 • Edited by Y. Kaplan, H. Méchoulan and R.H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and his World, ISBN: 978 90 04 09114 6 • Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought, ISBN: 978 90 04 09324 9 • Martin I.J. Griffin Jr. Annotated by Richard H. Popkin. Edited by Lila Freedman, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 09653 0 • Edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt, Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ISBN: 978 90 04 09596 0 • Edited by Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 12883 5 • Edited by R.H. Popkin, Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought 1650-1800, ISBN: 978 90 04 08513 8 (Out of print)


The Very Idea of Modern Science

The Very Idea of Modern Science

Author: Joseph Agassi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-14

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9400753519

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This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.


Robert Boyle, 1627-91

Robert Boyle, 1627-91

Author: Michael Hunter

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780851157986

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A re-evaluation of Boyle in the light of new evidence of his tortured religious life and his difficult relations with his contemporaries.