Experiments and considerations touching colours (Boyle, Robert)

Robert Boyle reconsidered

are apt to instill their principles into the mindes of weake persons, and you well know, if your wife got anything into her Head, all the reason in the World will not persuade her out of it." There is much sophisticated analysis to admire that positions midwives into larger historical debates. South German cities, such as Nuremberg, Augsburg and Munich, controlled their midwives through "sworn ...

Robert Boyle (1627–1691): scrupulosity and science

makers such as Fraunhofer, Amici, Selligue and Chevalier? Also, the figures of the plate from the 1787 Essays on the microscope were not drawn thanks to an Adams microscope, but are copies, probably made by a camera obscura, of original figures taken from the works of Trembley (1744, 1747), Baker (1753), Rosel von Rosenhof (1755), and others. This certainly does not affect the high quality of t...

Downing , Lisa , " Robert Boyle , " in A Companion to Early Modern

I. Life and works Robert Boyle, natural philosopher, was born in 1627 to Richard Boyle and Katherine Fenton. Despite Robert Boyle's status as youngest son of a large family, his father's wealth, influence, and title (first Earl of Cork) afforded him an income and allowed him to devote himself to intellectual pursuits. The young Boyle's education included Eton and private tutoring (both at home ...

Symbolic Dynamics and Matricesmike Boyle

The Robert Gordon University's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004

The High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track explores methods of improving the accuracy of document retrieval systems. As part of this track, the participants have investigated how information about a searcher’s context can be used to improve retrieval performance [Allan, 2003; Allan, 2004]. Searchers, referred to as assessors in this track, produce TREC-style search topics. Addition...