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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature - November 1996 Due to site maintenance, online purchases on Cambridge Core would be temporarily unavailable on Sunday 24th March from 08:00 until 18:00 GMT.
10 de may. de 2024 · In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an infinite, personal God.
Having shown that the definition given of nature by Aristotle himself, as great a logician as he was, has not been able to satisfy so much as his interpreters and disciples what his own idea of nature was, it would be to little purpose to trouble you and myself with enquiring into the definitions and disputes of other Peripatetics about so obscure and perplexed a subject, especially since it ...
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the study of Robert Boyle convenient and enjoyable, and here, ably assisted by Edward B. Davis, he has put us all further in his debt with a compact and readable edition of the philosophically importan Fret e Enquiry into the Notion of Nature. The Free Enquiry was first published in 1686, some five years before Boyle's death, but much of it was ...
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an infinite, personal God.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Title: A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature made in an essay address'd to a friend / by R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society. Rights/Permissions: The University of Michigan Library provides access to these keyboarded and encoded editions of the works for educational and research purposes.
