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The Correspondence of Robert Boyle - The Pickering Masters
Author: Robert Boyle, Michael Cyril William Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio, Lawrence Principe

"The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691" is the first edition of Boyle's correspondence transcribed, mostly for the first time, from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and comprehensive general index. "The Correspondence of Robert Boyle" is a British Academy Research Project. Robert Boyle (1627-91) was n... more »ot only one of the founders of modern Western science but also a key figure in late 17th-century English culture. Himself a prolific and innovative experimenter, he was at the centre of a network of figures with similar interests. These included some of the most important European intellectuals of his day, together with many leading figures in the most innovative and influential scientific institution of the 17th century, the Royal Society. This is the first complete edition of Boyle's correspondence. More than a third of the letters presented here have never before been published, while the text of others is more complete and accurate than hitherto. Boyle's surviving correspondence is with over 300 men and women. They range from luminaries such as the philosopher, John Locke, or the churchman and politician, Gilbert Burnet, to men who are little known - figures like the shadowy French alchemist, Georges Pierre, or the New England physician, William Avery. Yet these correspondence are hardly less significant than the celebrities for understanding Boyle's milieu, and the new edition is important not least for the light it throws on the circles of alchemists and chemists in Boyle's period in England and abroad, whose activities are otherwise barely known and have yet to be fully explored. Boyle's piety was celebrated, many of this letters are to clergymen who advised him in his spiritual life, while his charity to those in need is reflected by various letters seeking his assistance, not least from Hugenot refugees from the France of Louis XIV. "The Correspondence" also illustrates Boyle's active role in the promotion of Protestant Christianity. For nearly thirty years as Governor of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (the New England Company), his profound interest in the affairs of that body is illustrated by many letters. Other letters give details of Boyle's involvement in projects to promulgate a Gaelic translation of the Bible in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands. The correspondence also provides crucial materials for Boyle's own life as a member of a distinguished Anglo-Irish family. His earliest letters are to his father, the great Earl of Cork, while subsequent ones throw light on his land holdings in Ireland and on his relations with his brothers, sisters and other members of his family.

ISBN-13: 9781851961252
ISBN-10: 1851961259
Pages: 3,368
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Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Book Type: Hardcover
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