Michael Hunter

The Boyle Papers (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351893718
• Artikelnr.: 56887459

Autorenporträt

Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books on science and its milieu in late seventeenth-century England, and is also the editor-in-chief of the Works and Correspondence of Robert Boyle.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: The Boyle Papers in context; Robert Boyle and his
archive; The lost papers of Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter and Lawrence M.
Principe; The workdiaries of Robert Boyle: a newly discovered source and
its internet publication, Michael Hunter and Charles Littleton; Robert
Boyle's Paralipomena: an analysis and reconstruction, Michael Hunter,
Harriet Knight and Charles Littleton; The making of Robert Boyle's Free
Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature (1686), Michael Hunter
and Edward B. Davis; Catalogue of the Boyle papers, letters, notebooks and
associated manuscripts; Index.