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- 2009013997 abstract "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.".
- 2009013997 alternative "Between God and science".
- 2009013997 contributor B11409426.
- 2009013997 created "c2009.".
- 2009013997 date "2009".
- 2009013997 date "c2009.".
- 2009013997 dateCopyrighted "c2009.".
- 2009013997 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2009013997 description "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.".
- 2009013997 description "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.".
- 2009013997 extent "xii, 366 p. :".
- 2009013997 identifier "0300123817 (ci : alk. paper)".
- 2009013997 identifier "9780300123814 (ci : alk. paper)".
- 2009013997 issued "2009".
- 2009013997 issued "c2009.".
- 2009013997 language "eng".
- 2009013997 publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- 2009013997 spatial "England".
- 2009013997 spatial "Ireland".
- 2009013997 subject "509.2 B 22".
- 2009013997 subject "Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.".
- 2009013997 subject "Chemists Ireland Biography.".
- 2009013997 subject "Q143.B69 H86 2009".
- 2009013997 subject "Religion and science.".
- 2009013997 subject "Science England History 17th century.".
- 2009013997 subject "Scientists Ireland Biography.".
- 2009013997 tableOfContents "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.".
- 2009013997 title "Between God and science".
- 2009013997 title "Boyle : between God and science / Michael Hunter.".
- 2009013997 type "text".