TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sargent,Rose-Mary
TI  - The diffident naturalist: Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment 
T2  - Science and its conceptual foundations
SN  - 9780226735627 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q143.B77 S27 1995eb
U1  - 530/.092 22
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Boyle, Robert,
KW  - Boyle, Robert.
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - 1627-1691
KW  - Boyle, Robert
KW  - Science
KW  - Physics
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - Energy
KW  - Natuurwetenschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Natuurfilosofie
KW  - Experimenten
KW  - Experiment
KW  - swd
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Biographie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-335) and index; pt. I. Learning from the Past. 1. The Philosophical Tradition. 2. The Legal Tradition. 3. The Experimental Tradition -- pt. II. Being a Christian Virtuoso. 4. Natural Theology. 5. Biblical Hermeneutics -- pt. III. Acting Experimentally. 6. Observing. 7. Experimenting. 8. Writing -- Conclusion: The Experimental Process
N2  - In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for mid- to late seventeenth-century natural philosophers and for many who followed them. Sargent examines the philosophical, legal, experimental, and religious traditions--among them English common law, alchemy, medicine, and Christianity--that played a part in shaping Boyle's experimental thought and practice. The roots of his philosophy in his early life and education, in his re
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