Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1955. — 82 p. Introduction and background. Elements of 17th century thought. Robert Boyle. Religion in the science of Robert Boyle.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 231 p. 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 that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and theology, bringing out the subtlety and complexity of his ideas. Particular attention...
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. — 313 p. Captain of industry. Childhood 1627-1638. Youth 1638-1644. Apprenticeship 1644-1654. Oxford and the new philosophy 1654-1660. Last years at Oxford 1660-1668. Life in London 1668-1691. Early works. Boyle and Anglican theology. Alchemy and Medieval science. Boyle as alchemist. Boyle as the sceptical scientist. Boyle as creative...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 340 p. 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...
University of Chicago Press, 1995. - 355 pp.
In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for mid- to late seventeenth-century natural philosophers and for many who followed them.
Sargent examines the...
Princeton University Press, 2011 (originally published in 1985). - 391 pp.
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,...
Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002. — 243 p. In Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason , Jan W. Wojcik explores the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. Wojcik shows how Boyle's three categories of "things above reason" - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable were reflected in his conception of the goals and...
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