The diffident naturalist : Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment /

In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for mid- to late seventeenth-century natural philosophers and for many who fo...

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Main Author: Sargent, Rose-Mary
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995
Series:Science and its conceptual foundations.
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