The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment

by Rose-Mary Sargent

Book Overview

In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for mid- to late seventeenth-century natural philosophers and for many who followed them.

Sargent examines the philosophical, legal, experimental, and religious traditions--among them English common law, alchemy, medicine, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226734978
• ISBN13: 9780226734972
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"