Boyle: Between God and Science

by Michael Hunter

Book Overview

Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker--pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300169310
• ISBN13: 9780300169317
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"