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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Robert Boyle"”.
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Robert Boyle on the Elements
Robert Boyle (1627-91) hypothesised that all matter subsisted of corpuscles, differentiated only by size, figure and shape, and believed that water played a central rôle in the created world: it may even have been the prime matter. He considered the question of the elements and, defining them as …
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A Commentary on The Sceptical Chymist of Robert Boyle
The purpose of this project is to elucidate Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist to the contemporary reader – in particular one with a knowledge either of philosophy or of chemistry. The body of the work divides naturally into three distinct sections: Literature Review in which some twenty articles …
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… of the seventeenth centuryin particular, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) considered and assessed the personal traits of skill and experience and the significance of these characteristics to the practice of seventeenth-century science. Boyle's writings reveal that skill and experience impacted …
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824
This project attends to a body of literature that registers the extraordinary and tragic effects of chimneys infused with living coal upon young chimney sweeps. In so doing, I show how writers, especially John Holland, registered the dynamic interrelationship between chimney sweeps, chimneys and …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
… of Lower’s colleagues, Thomas Willis and Robert Boyle, provide a new context and reasoning behind Lower’s experiments. Lower, Willis and Boyle’s combined work explains the theory of blood diseases and how blood transfusions could potentially treat mental diseases including melancholy.
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At the Margins of Modern Science: Leviathan and the Air-Pump as a Case Study for Meta-analysis of Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
… they find between the community orientation of Robert Boyle and the anti-community stance of Thomas Hobbes. In the course of this thesis, I question the validity not only of this contrast, but of the origins story itself. I suggest that while experimental, communally-practiced science and …
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Matter in motion: The problem of activity in seventeenth-century English matter theory
… Sir Kenelm Digby, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Sir William Petty and Isaac Newton tried to account for the motions and other activities of matter. In the Conclusion it is reasserted that the concept of passive inert matter was never a major feature of …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
… dynamics. Through his correspondence, I examine Robert Boyle, the well-known natural philosopher who in London remotely piloted translation and print in New England. The fourth chapter illuminates New France’s end-of-century encounters in the Huron nation and Louisiana. Through the writings of …