Robert Boyle (1627-91) : scrupulosity and science / Michael Hunter.
Pubblicazione:
Woodbridge : The Boydell press, 2000.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 293 p. ; 24 cm
Note:
Con passi scelti di R. Boyle
Contiene:
Indice: Note on references and abbreviations. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Interpretations of Boyle, public and private, old and new 2. How Boyle became a scientist 3. The conscience of Robert Boyle: functionalism, dysfunctionalism and the task of historical understanding 4. Casuistry in action: Robert Boyle's confessional interviews with Gilbert Burnet and Edward Stillingfleet (1691) 5. Alchemy, magic and moralism in the thought of Robert Boyle 6. Mapping the mind of Robert Boyle: the evidence of the Boyle papers 7. Self-definition through self-defence: interpreting the apologies of Robert Boyle 8. Boyle versus the Galenists: a suppressed critique of seventeenth-century medical practice and its significance 9. The reluctant philanthropist: Robert Boyle and the communication of secrets and receipts in physick 10. Magic, science and reputation: Robert Boyle, the Royal society and the occult in the late seventeenth century 11. Robert Boyle and the dilemma of biography in the age of the scientific revolution. Bibliography. Index
Abbri, Ferdinando 1951- Recensione].