Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into The Vulgarly Received Notion Of Nature - 9780521561006

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.

• | By (Author): Robert Boyle
• | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 07, 1996
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780521561006