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Bezig met laden... Boyle: Between God and Sciencedoor Michael Hunter
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Robert Boyle is known to most chemists solely for his Law relating the pressure and volume of a gas, but this privileged son of the Earl of Cork was not as interested in discovering an equation as he was in determining what his experiments could tell him about his own relationship to God. Both Boyle and his contemporary, Isaac Newton, had strong spiritual inclinations, including both Christianity and alchemy. Newton was more willing to work through mathematics in search of eternal truths. For Boyle, his Christian faith permeates almost all of his writing (except for most of The Skeptical Chemist) and led to his endowment of an Oxford lectureship to preserve and defend the faith against the onslaught of "notorious infidels" such as "Jews and Mohametans", and funding for the translation of the New Testament into Irish and Algonquin. Michael Hunter is the world's expert on Boyle, and he has distilled seemingly every available historical artifact into this impressive book. Reading it makes you feel as if you have met Boyle himself. ( )
This first comprehensive work on the life of Boyle is a piece of stunning scholarship, a command performance by a gifted historian. It is also a great read.
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker - pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated by alchemy and magic and privately plagued with doubts about faith and conscience, which troubled the rational vision he heralded. This extraordinary work is the first biography of Boyle in a generation, and the culminating achievement of a world-renowned expert on the scientist. Deftly navigating Boyle's voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers, Hunter's complete and intimate account gives us the man rather than the myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner. Lively, perceptive, and full of original insights, this is the definitive account of a remarkable man and the changing world in which he lived. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)509.2Natural sciences and mathematics General Science History, geographic treatment, biography BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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