Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Edward B. Davis, Messiah College, Pennsylvania
Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, University of London
$167.00
USDPublished in 1686, this work attacked prevailing notions of the natural world that depicted "Nature" as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. It represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the issues raised by the mechanical philosophy that emerged from the Scientific Revolution. This volume presents the first modern edition of the complete text, together with a historical introduction, a chronology of Boyle's life and notes on further reading.
- Only complete text by Boyle in print
- Key work for understanding seventeenth-century preoccupations
- probably the best book available on Boyle
Reviews & endorsements
"This work, which admirably testifies to Boyle's equal concern for 'truth and philosophical freedom' and 'religion', deserves this new edition. And, as Davis and Hunter suggest at the end of their introduction, today an essay on the idea of nature can have more than a simple historical significance." Guido Giglioni, Isis
Product details
November 1996Hardback
9780521561006
212 pages
236 × 154 × 18 mm
0.44kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chronology
- A note on the text
- A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
- The Preface
- Section I
- Section II
- Section III
- Section IV
- Section V
- Section VI
- Section VII
- Section VIII
- Glossary
- Index.
