According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the "rise" of science to the "rise" of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly...
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According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the "rise" of science to the "rise" of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly...
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. 23x15cm, x, 268 pp. Contents: Introduction: Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History & Theory; "A Close (through Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible; "Babel Revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages & Idealizations of Order; "Those Fabulous Chaldeans": Boyle & the Crisis of Baconianism; "Ye True & Real Temple of God": Mathematics, History, & the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy; "The Interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, & Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism"; Boyle "Epitomiz'd": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England.
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First edition. x+269 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. Traces the importance of theology to the crisis of representation in English natural philosophy as documented by the writings of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries. Finds that the tension between observed experimental phenomena and established religious and political thought led them to devise innovative theories.
