The aspiring adept: Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest

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 b...

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Hauptverfasser: Principe, Lawrence M. (VerfasserIn), Boyle, Robert 1627-1691 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1998
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:XIV, 339 S.
ISBN:069101678X

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