The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle - Couverture rigide

Hunter, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754655687 ISBN 13 : 9780754655688

Editeur : Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The papers, letters and ancillary manuscripts of the influential scientist, Robert Boyle (1627-91) have been at the Royal Society since 1769"a catalogue of them first published in 1992. This volume presents that catalogue in completely revised form, updated to do justice to the extensive use made of the archive in the definitive editions of Boyle's Works and Correspondence published between 1999 and 2001. The book also includes studies of the history of the archive and its components, in which significant conclusions are drawn about the development of Boyle's ideas. This book will be indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in Boyle.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books on science and its milieu in late seventeenth-century England, and is also the editor-in-chief of the Works and Correspondence of Robert Boyle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754655687
• ISBN 13: 9780754655688
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 688
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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