Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-century Chemistry
Author: Marie Boas
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marie Boas
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marie Boas Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1107453747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0197502504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book examines the way in which Robert Boyle seeks to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of a mechanistic theory of matter. More specifically, the book proposes that Boyle regards chemical qualities as properties that emerged from the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Within Boyle's chemical ontology, chymical atoms are structured concretions of particles that Boyle regards as chemically elementary entities, that is, as chemical wholes that resist experimental analysis. Although this interpretation of Boyle's chemical philosophy has already been suggested by other Boyle scholars, the present book provides a sustained philosophical argument to demonstrate that, for Boyle, chemical properties are dispositional, relational, emergent, and supervenient properties. This argument is strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms that establishes the kind of theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. The emergentist position that is being attributed to Boyle supports his view that chemical reactions resist direct explanation in terms of the mechanistic properties of fundamental particles, as well as his position regarding the scientific autonomy of chymistry from mechanics and physics"--
Author: Lawrence Principe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0691186286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science because of his mechanical philosophy and his experimentation with the air-pump and other early scientific apparatus. However, Lawrence Principe shows that his alchemical quest--hidden first by Boyle's own codes and secrecy, and later suppressed or ignored--positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century. Principe radically reinterprets Boyle's most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist, to show that it criticizes not alchemists, as has been thought, but "unphilosophical" pharmacists and textbook writers. He then shows Boyle's unambiguous enthusiasm for alchemy in his "lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals, now reconstructed from scattered fragments and presented here in full for the first time. Intriguingly, Boyle believed that the goal of his quest, the Philosopher's Stone, could not only transmute base metals into gold, but could also attract angels. Alchemy could thus act both as a source of knowledge and as a defense against the growing tide of atheism that tormented him. In seeking to integrate the seemingly contradictory facets of Boyle's work, Principe also illuminates how alchemy and other "unscientific" pursuits had a far greater impact on early modern science than has previously been thought.
Author: Roberta Baxter
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599350257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Boyle, the favorite son of the wealthiest man in England and Ireland, could have lived a life of luxury. Instead he committed himself to advancing scientific knowledge and to helping lay the foundation of modern chemistry. Boyle used his wealth to help found the Royal Society, the first state chartered scientific organization, and to build an elaborate laboratory in which he performed dozens of experiments in chemistry and physics. Robert Boyle lived during an exciting time of revolution and scientific advancement, and his life and work are vividly portrayed for a new generation of young readers in Skeptical Chemist: The Story of Robert Boyle. Book jacket.
Author: Mary Gow
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780766025011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Profiles the life and accomplishments of one of the most important figures in the history of science, Robert Boyle. His observations of the relationship between volume and pressure became known as Boyle's Law.