The aspiring adept (Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest)
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Publisher PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691050829
- ISBN10 0691050821
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- Pages 339
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Rustic
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History And Philosophy Of ScienceThe aspiring adept (Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest)
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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.
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