Boyle studies : aspects of the life and thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91) / Michael Hunter.
Pubblicazione:
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2015.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 244 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction 2. Boyle's early intellectual evolution: a reappraisal 3. Boyle and the early Royal society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science 4. Boyle, Narcissus Marsh and the Anglo-Irish intellectual scene in the late seventeenth century 5. The disquieted mind in casuistry and natural philosophy: Boyle and Thomas Barlow 6. Boyle and secrecy 7. Boyle and the uses of print 8. Boyle and the supernatural 9. Physica peregrinans, or the Travelling naturalist: Boyle, his informants and the role of the exotic. Appendix 1: Extant portion of Boyle's The aspireing naturalist (a philosophical romance). Appendix 2: Physica peregrinans, or the Travelling naturalist: narratives from hitherto unpublished manuscripts. Index
