Robert Boyle

Author : Roberta Baxter
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Scientists
ISBN : 1599350254

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Skeptical Chemist by Roberta Baxter Pdf

Robert Boyle, the favorite son of the wealthiest man in England and Ireland, could have lived a life of luxury. Instead he committed himself to advancing scientific knowledge and to helping lay the foundation of modern chemistry. Boyle used his wealth to help found the Royal Society, the first state chartered scientific organization, and to build an elaborate laboratory in which he performed dozens of experiments in chemistry and physics. Robert Boyle lived during an exciting time of revolution and scientific advancement, and his life and work are vividly portrayed for a new generation of young readers in Skeptical Chemist: The Story of Robert Boyle. Book jacket.

Author : Alexis Burling
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508174776

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Robert Boyle by Alexis Burling Pdf

Robert Boyle was one of history�s most significant scientists. His name can be linked to some of the earliest breakthroughs in chemistry. Perhaps his most famous contribution to science is Boyle�s law, which states that if the volume of a gas is decreased, the pressure increases proportionally. He was also one of the first scientists to conduct systemized experiments in order to prove a theory or idea. In this book, readers can learn about these and many more of Boyle�s groundbreaking discoveries. A compelling main text, informative sidebars, and a detailed timeline help students contextualize Boyle�s life and his impact on history.

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1662
Category : Air
ISBN : OCLC:14316481

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New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Air by Robert Boyle Pdf

Author : Reijer Hooykaas
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOM:39015040617394

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Robert Boyle by Reijer Hooykaas Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive study of the thought of Robert Boyle in the context of his time. Boyle was a pioneer of experimental physics and founder of modern chemistry. Hooykaas provides a historical study of the relations between science and Christian faith in Boyle focusing on his views of religion, revelation, reason and experience. Boyle's conception of science is compared with those of Descartes, Gassendi, Newton, Bacon and Pascal. It is a close textual study of the collected works of Boyle using the edition of 1772. It corrects criticism that Hooykaas abused history of science to engage in Christian apologetics. It is intended for historians of science, philosophers of science, students of religion and science relations, Boyle scholars, and historians of chemistry. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Chapter I: Boyle's Life and Times; Chapter II: Science; Chapter III: Religion and the Study of Nature; Chapter IV: Special Revelation; Index of Names. Co-published with The Pascal Center for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science.

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752370812

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The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle

Author : Michael Hunter,Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085115798X

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Robert Boyle, 1627-91 by Michael Hunter,Michael Cyril William Hunter Pdf

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

Author : Robert Boyle,Thomas Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCSD:31822006849814

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The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle,Thomas Birch Pdf

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521567963

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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature by Robert Boyle Pdf

An important treatise by one of the leading mechanical philosophers of the seventeenth century.

Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691186283

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The Aspiring Adept by Lawrence Principe Pdf

The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science because of his mechanical philosophy and his experimentation with the air-pump and other early scientific apparatus. However, Lawrence Principe shows that his alchemical quest--hidden first by Boyle's own codes and secrecy, and later suppressed or ignored--positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century. Principe radically reinterprets Boyle's most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist, to show that it criticizes not alchemists, as has been thought, but "unphilosophical" pharmacists and textbook writers. He then shows Boyle's unambiguous enthusiasm for alchemy in his "lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals, now reconstructed from scattered fragments and presented here in full for the first time. Intriguingly, Boyle believed that the goal of his quest, the Philosopher's Stone, could not only transmute base metals into gold, but could also attract angels. Alchemy could thus act both as a source of knowledge and as a defense against the growing tide of atheism that tormented him. In seeking to integrate the seemingly contradictory facets of Boyle's work, Principe also illuminates how alchemy and other "unscientific" pursuits had a far greater impact on early modern science than has previously been thought.

Author : Jan-Erik Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350029378

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle by Jan-Erik Jones Pdf

Robert Boyle, well known in scientific circles, has still not received the credit he deserves in philosophy. A leader in experimental philosophy, his interests range from morality and philosophy of religion to epistemology and the philosophy of science. The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle brings together the latest work on the lesser known aspects of Boyle's philosophy, alongside some of his best known views, and surveys the full range of his philosophy for the first time. Situating Boyle within the philosophical and scientific traditions and introducing his zeal for experiment and commitment to the improvement of humanity, chapters reveal how crucial chemistry and alchemy are to his philosophy of science. They take up the metaphysical and ontological consequences of his philosophy and discuss his influence in the 17th and 18th centuries. Highlighting the importance of his moral theory and theological commitments for his philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology, chapters show how they motivate Boyle's philosophical positions and practices. For students or researchers looking to better understand Boyle's contribution to philosophy The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle is a comprehensive and invaluable guide. By taking into account the last thirty years of scholarship and pointing towards the next thirty years it presents the best of the current research on Boyle's philosophy and significance today.

Author : Robert Boyle,Michael Cyril William Hunter,Edward Bradford Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 185196522X

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The Works of Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle,Michael Cyril William Hunter,Edward Bradford Davis Pdf

Author : Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780197502501

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The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Pdf

"This book examines the way in which Robert Boyle seeks to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of a mechanistic theory of matter. More specifically, the book proposes that Boyle regards chemical qualities as properties that emerged from the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Within Boyle's chemical ontology, chymical atoms are structured concretions of particles that Boyle regards as chemically elementary entities, that is, as chemical wholes that resist experimental analysis. Although this interpretation of Boyle's chemical philosophy has already been suggested by other Boyle scholars, the present book provides a sustained philosophical argument to demonstrate that, for Boyle, chemical properties are dispositional, relational, emergent, and supervenient properties. This argument is strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms that establishes the kind of theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. The emergentist position that is being attributed to Boyle supports his view that chemical reactions resist direct explanation in terms of the mechanistic properties of fundamental particles, as well as his position regarding the scientific autonomy of chymistry from mechanics and physics"--

Author : Peter R. Anstey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134592029

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The Philosophy of Robert Boyle by Peter R. Anstey Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872201228

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Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle Pdf

"The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte's Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars." --Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania

Author : Marie Boas Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9781107453746

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Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry by Marie Boas Hall Pdf