A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain
The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.
This book, first published in 1981, provides a systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the... Læs mere
This book is about a single image - John Evelyn's frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the... Læs mere
Robert Boyle’s role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged, and the... Læs mere