Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle"The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte's Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars." --Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania |
Contents
The Origin of Forms and Qualities According | 1 |
Sections II IV publ 1686 | 176 |
Some PhysicoTheological Considerations about | 192 |
A Discourse of Things above Reason Enquiring | 209 |
Textual notes | 243 |
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2nd Edition accidents according affections of matter agent antimony aqua fortis arguments Aristotelians Aristotle atoms belong Boyle Boyle's caput mortuum chemists colour conceive concretions confess consider considerable consists constitute contrived corpuscles Corpuscularian Descartes differing discourse distinct divers doctrine doth effects employ endowed Epicureans Epicurus especially experiments explicate figure fire give glass gold hath heat hypothesis ingredients instance liquor Lucretius mechanical affections Mechanical philosophy menstruum mercury metalline metals motion natural bodies natural philosophy objects observe oftentimes oil of vitriol Origin of Forms particles particular qualities partly perhaps Peripatetics phenomena of nature philosophy portion of matter pretend principles produced proposed Pyrocles Pyrophilus redintegration Robert Boyle saline salt saltpetre sense sensible shape sometimes Sophr Sophronius sort soul spagyrists speak spirit spirit of nitre substance substantial forms sufficient sulphur suppose take notice texture thereby things above reason truth vitriol wherein whereof wont words