Michael Hunter (ed.)

Robert Boyle Reconsidered

Herausgeber: Hunter, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627 91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521892674
• ISBN-10: 0521892678
• Artikelnr.: 21555249

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction Michael Hunter
2. Virtue, providence and political neutralism: Boyle and interregnum politics Malcolm Oster
3. Science writing and writing science: Boyle and rhetorical theory John T. Harwood
4. Learning from experience: Boyle's construction of an experimental philosophy Rose-Mary Sargent
5. Carneades and the chemists: a study of The Sceptical Chymist and its impact on seventeenth-century chemistry Antonio Clericuzio
6. Boyle's alchemical pursuits Lawrence M. Principe
7. Boyle's debt to corpuscular alchemy William R. Newman
8. Boyle and cosmical qualities John Henry
9. The theological context of Boyle's Things above Reason Jan W. Wojcik
10. 'Parcere nominibus': Boyle, Hooke and the rhetorical interpretation of Descartes Edward B. Davis
11. Teleological reasoning in Boyle's Disquisition about Final Causes Timothy Shanahan
12. Locke and Boyle on miracles and God's existence J. J. Macintosh
Bibliography of writings on Boyle published since 1940
Index.