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Author : Robert Boyle,Michael Cyril William Hunter,Edward Bradford Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 185196522X
Author : Robert Boyle,Thomas Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCSD:31822006849814
Author : Reijer Hooykaas
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015040617394
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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521567963
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 : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691186283
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 : Rose-Mary Sargent
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226734972
Featuring a figure of early modern science, this text explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work. Philosophical, legal, experimental and religious traditions that played a part in shaping Boyle's experimental thought and practice are examined.
Author : Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0754655687
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.
Author : Robert Boyle,Thomas Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCSD:31822006850044
Author : Joseph Agassi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753518
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.
Author : Michael Ben-Chaim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351937757
How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science? Scholars have traditionally associated empirical research with the search for knowledge, but have failed to provide adequate solutions to this basic historical problem. This book offers a different approach that focuses on human understanding - rather than knowledge - and its cultural expression in the creation and social transaction of causal explanations. Ancient Greek philosophers professed that genuine understanding of a particular subject was gained only when its nature, or essence, was defined. This ancient mode of explanation furnished the core teachings of late medieval natural philosophers, and was reaffirmed by early modern philosophers such as Bacon and Descartes. Yet during the second half of the 17th century, radical transformation gave rise to innovative research practices that were designed to explain how empirical properties of the physical world were correlated. The study unfolded in this book centres on the works of Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton - the most notable exponents of the 'experimental philosophy' in the late 17th century - to explore how this transformation led to the emergence of a recognizably modern culture of empirical research. Relating empirical with explanatory practices, this book offers a novel solution to one of the major problems in the history of western science and philosophy. It thereby provides a new perspective on the Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern empiricism. At the same time, this book demonstrates how historical and sociological tools can be combined to study science as an evolving institution of human understanding.
Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1772
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : ONB:+Z174848406
Author : Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400838493
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.
Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UOM:39076002967771
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. This biography of Boyle navigates Boyle's voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers.
Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752370812
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 : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085115798X
A re-evaluation of Boyle in the light of new evidence of his tortured religious life and his difficult relations with his contemporaries.