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Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science, 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 us, Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science
  • Written by author Michael Hunter
  • Published by Boydell & Brewer, Limited, October 2000
  • 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 us
  • A re-evaluation of Boyle in the light of new evidence of his tortured religious life and his difficult relations with his contemporaries.
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1Introduction: Interpretations of Boyle, Public and Private, Old and New1
2How Boyle Became a Scientist15
AppBoyle and the Sects51
3The Conscience of Robert Boyle: Functionalism, 'Dysfunctionalism' and the Task of Historical Understanding58
4Casuistry in Action: Robert Boyle's Confessional Interviews with Gilbert Burnet and Edward Stillingfleet, 169172
Appthe Text of the Interviews87
5Alchemy, Magic and Moralism in the Thought of Robert Boyle93
6Mapping the Mind of Robert Boyle: the Evidence of the Boyle Papers119
7Self-Definition through Self-Defence: Interpreting the Apologies of Robert Boyle135
AppBoyle's Response to the Allegations of 'Mr H.'154
8Boyle versus the Galenists: a Suppressed Critique of Seventeenth-century Medical Practice and its Significance157
AppTexts relating to Boyle's 'Considerations & Doubts Touching the Vulgar Method of Physick'187
9The Reluctant Philanthropist: Robert Boyle and the 'Communication of Secrets and Receits in Physick'202
10Magic, Science and Reputation: Robert Boyle, the Royal Society and the Occult in the late Seventeenth Century223
Appthe Latin Text of Sections of Part 2 of 'Strange Reports'245
11Robert Boyle and the Dilemma of Biography in the Age of the Scientific Revolution251
Bibliography269
Index285


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