Boyle : between God and science / Michael Hunter.
Hunter, Michael, 1949-
2009
Q143.B69 H86 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Boyle : between God and science / Michael Hunter.
Author Hunter, Michael, 1949-
ISBN 9780300169317 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300169310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780300123814 (alk. paper)
0300123817 (alk. paper)
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number Q143.B69 H86 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.2 B
Summary Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker - pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated by alchemy and magic and privately plagued with doubts about faith and conscience, which troubled the rational vision he heralded. This extraordinary work is the first biography of Boyle in a generation, and the culminating achievement of a world-renowned expert on the scientist. Deftly navigating Boyle's voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers, Hunter's complete and intimate account gives us the man rather than the myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner. Lively, perceptive, and full of original insights, this is the definitive account of a remarkable man and the changing world in which he lived.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
1. Boyle's birth, background and family, 1627-1635
2. Eton, Stalbridge and Boyle's patrimony, 1635-1639
3. The Grand Tour, 1639-1644
4. The Moralist, 1645-1649
5. The turning point, 1649-1652
6. Ireland and Oxford, 1652-1658
7. The evolution of Boyle's programme, c.1655-1658
8. The public arena, 1659-1663
9. The royal society, 1664-1668
10. The early London years, 1668-1676
11. The arcane and the luminous, 1676-c.1680
12. Evangelism, apologetics and casuitry, c.1680-1683
13. Medicine and projecting, 1683-1687
14. Preparing for death, 1688-1691
15. Boyle's legacy.

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