Robert Boyle reconsidered
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 which scrutinise Boyle's writings on science, philosophy and theology in detail, bringing out the sub...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1994.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39722818*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Virtue, providence and political neutralism : Boyle and interregnum politics / Malcolm Oster
- Science writing and writing science : Boyle and rhetorical theory / John T. Harwood
- Learning from experience : Boyle's construction of an experimental philosophy / Rose-Mary Sargent
- Carneades and the chemists : a study of The sceptical chymist and its impact on seventeenth-century chemistry / Antonio Clericuzio
- Boyle's alchemical pursuits / Lawrence M. Principe
- Boyle's debt to corpuscular alchemy / William R. Newman
- Boyle and cosmical qualities / John Henry
- The theological context of Boyle's Things above reason / Jan W. Wojcik
- 'Parcere nominibus' : Boyle, Hooke and the rhetorical interpretation of Descartes / Edward B. Davis.
- Teleological reasoning in Boyle's Disquisition about final causes / Timothy Shanahan
- Locke and Boyle on miracles and God's existence / J.J. MacIntosh.
