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In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627–91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an ...
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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received...
- Introduction - Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received ...
Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. $64.99 (X) textbook. Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Real Author: Robert Boyle. Editors: Edward B. Davis, Messiah College, Pennsylvania. Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, University of London. Date Published: November 1996. availability: Available.
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Argument This essay describes two styles of natural theology that emerged in England out of a debate over the correct interpretation of divine evidences in nature during the seventeenth century. The …
A free enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature. Responsibility. edited by Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter. Imprint. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. Physical description. xxxvi, 171 p. ; 24 cm. Series. Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature Reviewed by. Charles Stewart-Robertson - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (5):307-309.
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