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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 Here, Michael Hunter, the acknowledged expert on Boyle, makes use of much hitherto unpublished material to offer a novel and distinctive view of the man.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
Portrait of Robert Boyle
No full textMedium: engravingsigned and dated."Portrait of Robert Boyle" [1959.4070.000.000], Vertue, George, Kerseboom, J.Extent: imageExtent: plateExtent: shee
Portrait of Robert Boyle
No full textRobert Boyle (1627-1691), Irish-born English scientist, by Johann Kerseboom
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Robert Boyle, chrześcijański wirtuoz
No full textRobert Boyle was one of the greatest scientists of the 17th century, a scientist and a theologian who used his scholarly competence in the service of Christian religion. He particularly cherished the physico-theological proof of the existence and majesty of God by deriving God’s attributes from the orderliness, complexity, and the beauty of the universe in general and all of its elements.
Robert Boyle był jednym z największych uczonych XVII w., naukowiec i teolog, który swoje kompetencje naukowe wykorzystywał w służbie religii chrześcijańskiej. Szczególnie cenił on fizyczno-teologiczny dowód na istnienie Boga i Boskiego majestatu, czerpiąc atrybuty Boga z porządku, złożoności i piękna wszechświata w ogóle i wszystkich jego elementów w szczególności
Robert Boyle. Tracts..., 1672
No full textTracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle... London, 1672
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Tracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle
No full textBoyle, Robert. Tracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle: containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air: and about explosions: an hydrostatical discourse occasion\u27d by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts: to which is annex\u27t, an Hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water. London, 1672
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Robert Boyle (1627–91): a suitable case for treatment?
No full textIt is hard to think of a better subject for the exercise of retrospective analysis with which we are here concerned than Robert Boyle, the leading British scientist of his day, and arguably the most significant before Newton. A prolific and influential author, Boyle was lionized in his time both for his scientific achievement and for his piety and philanthropy. Of late, he has been the subject of attention from a variety of viewpoints which, as we shall see, raises the issue of how he is best understood. In particular, I want to argue that, for all his eminence, there are complications about Boyle's personality that cry out for scrutiny, and it is on the implications of these that I will dwell in the latter stages of my paper.
Boyle was born into one of the most privileged aristocratic families in England. His father, Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, was Lord High Treasurer of Ireland before the Civil War, and Robert, the youngest – and, as he himself claimed, favourite – son, was brought up in an opulent, privileged setting, surrounded by servants and with an entrée at the royal court. His elder brothers were suave and active figures, only too ready to be involved in the fighting of the Civil War – in which one, Viscount Kinalmeaky, was killed, though two others, Lords Dungarvan and Broghill, survived to go on to high state office under both Cromwell and Charles II. This background undoubtedly had a significant influence on Boyle, giving him an aristocratic demeanour to which his contemporaries almost automatically deferred. It also made him familiar with the mindless social milieu of landed society, in which it was all too easy (in Boyle's own words) to ‘squander away a whole afternoone in tatling of this Ladys Face & tother Lady's Clothes; of this Lords being Drunke & that Lord's Clap; in telling how this Gentleman's horse outrun that other's Mare’
La méthode scientifique de Robert Boyle.
No full textBoas Marie. La méthode scientifique de Robert Boyle.. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 9, n°2, 1956. pp. 105-125
The Robert Boyle Project website archive
No full textStatic version of The Robert Boyle Project website, consisting of a folder of HTML files which preserves the site navigation. Originally created in 1997, updated in 2017
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