Robert Boyle, (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science
by Michael Hunter
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- Hardcover
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- 085115798X
- ISBN 13
- 9780851157986
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Suffolk UK: The Boydell Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth with green paper label on cover, 293 pages with index. Robert Boyle (1627-91), one of the seminal figures in the origins of modern science, yet a complex and tortured personality, has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent years. Here, Michael Hunter, the acknowledged expert on Boyle, makes use of much hitherto unpublished material to offer a novel and distinctive view of the man. Hunter's re-evaluation of Boyle focuses on an elucidation of his religious life, and particularly his concern with matters of conscience, which Boyle pursued with an obsessiveness that contemporaries characterised as `scrupulosity'. This arguably lay at the root of the convoluted intellectual personality revealed in many aspects of Boyle's ideas and activities. In addition, by studying works that Boyle wrote but never published, Hunter illustrates the extent to which he was constrained by his fear of being at odds with groups like the medical profession and with public opinion more generally. In these essays, Boyle emerges as a troubled figure, plagued by religious doubt, ambivalent about magic, and convoluted in his relations with the wider world. Light pencil marking to about 25 pages. No dust jacket. Record # 384107
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 384107
- Title
- Robert Boyle, (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science
- Author
- Michael Hunter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 085115798X
- ISBN 13
- 9780851157986
- Publisher
- The Boydell Press
- Place of Publication
- Suffolk UK
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Sciences, , .
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