Hunting Robert Boyle: Michael Hunter and Boyle's Life and LettersHunterMichael, Boyle: between God and science. Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 366. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0300123814.
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Notes and Records of the Royal Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0035-9149,1743-0178
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0022