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Suffolk UK: The Boydell Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth with green paper label on cover, 293 pages with index. 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 Here, Michael Hunter, the acknowledged expert on Boyle, makes use of much hitherto unpublished material to offer a novel and distinctive view of the man.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…
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Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science Hardcover - 2000
by Michael Hunter
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- Title Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science
- Author Michael Hunter
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition No dust Jacket
- Pages 303
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Date October 5, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780851157986 / 085115798X
- Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.09 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Great Britain - History - 17th, Scientists - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00041365
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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