Robert Boyle and seventeenth century chemistry

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 ...

Boyle versus the Galenists: a suppressed critique of seventeenth-century medical practice and its significance.

Medicine was integral to Robert Boyle's vision for natural philosophy. He saw medicine as "being a part, or an application of natural philosophy", and the amelioration of human life was one of the criteria directing his scientific programme: indeed, in a hitherto little-known memorandum dating from his later years, he even claimed that his famous pneumatical researches were inspired by the hope...

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 ...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.