The text of Robert Boyle's 'Designe about natural history’
Boyle, R. (2008) The text of Robert Boyle's 'Designe about natural history’. Occasional Papers of the Robert Boyle Project 3. London, UK: Robert Boyle Project. ISBN 978-0-9551608-2-0.
|
Text
Hunter_Boyle_paper_3_pub_pdf.pdf Download (496kB) | Preview |
Abstract
This publication presents a new text of Robert Boyle’s prescriptions for the writing of natural history, compiled in 1666 and partially divulged in 1684, but unpublished till modern times. The current edition restores the text to its correct order for the first time, and adds various cognate documents, including certain sections of the ‘Designe’ which survive elsewhere among the Boyle Papers at the Royal Society and are here first published. The result is to supply a significant document for understanding the evolution of Baconian method during the formative years of the Royal Society. The editors are Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Director of the Robert Boyle Project, and Peter Anstey, Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. (Text from the publisher's website at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/researchers/occasional_papers.htm )
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © Michael Hunter and Peter Anstey. This text is available for download from the publisher website at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/ |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2008 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:48 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/693 |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
Archive Staff Only (login required)
 |
Edit/View Item |