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The text of Robert Boyle's 'Designe about natural history’
No full textThis publication presents a new text of Robert Boyle’s prescriptions for the writing of natural history, compiled in 1666 and partially divulged in 1684, but unpublished till modern times. The current edition restores the text to its correct order for the first time, and adds various cognate documents, including certain sections of the ‘Designe’ which survive elsewhere among the Boyle Papers at the Royal Society and are here first published. The result is to supply a significant document for understanding the evolution of Baconian method during the formative years of the Royal Society.
The editors are Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Director of the Robert Boyle Project, and Peter Anstey, Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
(Text from the publisher's website at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/researchers/occasional_papers.htm
Letter from Michael Boyle to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Michael Boyle, The Maynooth Mission to China, St. Columban's College, Dalgan Park, Galway, to Hagan. In gratitude for his kindness in Rome. W.B. Murphy is still there but it seems he has a poor chance since the constitution is very explicitly against taking part in politics. Expressing his astonishment that, despite unsourced rumours to the contrary, all but two priests at Dalgan are on Hagan's side of things; only the superior never voices his opinion
Genius eclipsed: the fate of Robert Boyle
No full textThe article focuses on 17th century British natural philosopher and scientist Robert Boyle. The author explores Boyle's relationship with contemporary scientist Sir Isaac Newton and considers why Newton, as opposed to Boyle, remained famous. The author explores the importance of Boyle's writings including "Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy," "Sceptical Chymist," and "Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours." The article also considers subjects including English polymath Robert Hooke, the Royal Society of London, and Boyle's Law about the relationship between the volume of a gas and its pressure
Robert Boyle (1627-91): scrupulosity and science
No full textBook synopsis: 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
Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627–91). Michael Hunter. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 244 pp. $124.95 (Book Review)
No full textFor almost three decades, Michael Hunter’s work has been a necessary starting point for students and scholars of Robert Boyle and other founding fellows of the Royal Society of London. His many publications, and his editions (with collaborators) of Boyle’s printed works and correspondence, have provided an intellectual framework and an invaluable set of resources. Boyle Studies brings together material published since 2004, plus two new chapters and another that first appeared in French. The nine chapters form a coherent set, in part because Hunter has inserted signposts and cross-references, linking discussions across the volume. In the introduction, he reflects on his own understanding of Boyle in relation to past and current scholarship, continuing to see Boyle as “a convoluted figure” (5) and preferring this to “the lifeless lay saint depicted in the traditional historiography” (131), also found in Thomas Birch’s mid-eighteenth-century account (3–4). While acknowledging the insights of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Hunter eschews the image of Boyle as the self-assured aristocratic gentlemanFull Tex
Crosland-Boyle, Michael, [No Service Number]
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/379737Surname: CROSLAND-BOYLE
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Boyle&Ryan2016_Appendix 1_PhylogeneticMatrix
No full textPhylogenetic matrix of 73 brachythoracid taxa with 121 characters used in Boyle & Ryan 2016
Review of Michael Hunter, The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (Ashgate, 2007)
No full textMichael Hunter, The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle. With contributions by Edward B. Davis, Harriet Knight, Charles Littleton and Lawrence M. Principe. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xiii + 674. US$139.95/£70.00 HB. The publication by Michael Hunter of this revised edition of the catalogue of the Boyle Papers contributes admirably to the renaissance in Boyle studies which has taken place over the past decade and a half. Robert Boyle (1627–91), arguably the most influential British scientist of the late seventeenth century, was a pioneering experimenter, profound thinker, and figure-head of the new science in its early years of development. This volume brings together the materials necessary for understanding the Boyle archive, one of the most important archives from this period, which has been at the Royal Society since 1769
Hunting Robert Boyle: Michael Hunter and Boyle's life and letters
No full textEssay Review of the work of Professor Michael Hunter and his biography of Boyle: 'Boyle: between God and science' , 2009. ISBN 978-0300123814</p
Boyle&Ryan2016_Appendix 2_CharacterChanges
No full textChanges to phylogenetic character codings in Boyle & Ryan 2016 relative to those reported in Zhu et al. 2013 or Rucklin et al. 2015
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