Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature

Robert Boyle

Cambridge University Press, 1996

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In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. His Free Enquiry represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the philosophical issues raised by the mechanical philosophy to emerge from the period of the scientific revolution.

ISBN-13
9780521567961
ISBN-10
0521567963
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
Publication date
1996-11-07
Pages
212
Dimensions
228x151x17
Weight
328