Robert Boyle on God's “experiments”: Resurrection, immortality and mechanical philosophy

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 ...

incarnation and bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy

in this article, the compatibility of the opinion on the impossibility of reincarnation and belief in bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy is studied. to this end, while defining and mentioning different types of reincarnation, some impediments that caused the transcendental philosophers consider reincarnation as impossible are compiled. then it is specified, with regard to the opin...

Of Gods and Kings : Natural Philosophy and Politics in the