ROBERT BOYLE’S EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED
ROBERT BOYLE’S EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED

“Robert Boyle”, eds. Michael Hunter and Elizabeth Boran, Intellectual History Review, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2015), ISSN: 1749-6977 (print), 1749-6985 (online), 131 pp.

Summary/Abstract: As the two editors inform us in the preface, this special issue arose out of a colloquium held at the Edward Worth Library in Dublin, in December 2011, to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle’s most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist (London 1661). It contains seven articles and a substantial introduction and covers a good number of important aspects in the field of early modern studies: the evolution of Robert Boyle’s thought, his ‘conversion’ from moral to natural philosophy, his formative relation with his older sister, Lady Ranelagh, his way of reading and writing, his theology, his experimental practices, and some of his reception and immediate posterity.

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