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| #2309876 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1996-11-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.47 x5.98l,.66 | File type: PDF | 212 pages | ||1 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| "Much addicted to paradoxes" (p. 4)|By Viktor Blasjo|This is a timid and superficial critique of the pre-scientific notion of nature as quasi-sentient and teleological. Much the bulk of the treatise is wasted on cautious and defensive arguments that a mechanical view of nature is not heretical, but that on the contrary it is the opposing view that is "dangerous to religion" (p.||"This work, which admirably testifies to Boyle's equal concern for 'truth and philosophical freedom' and 'religion', deserves this new edition. And, as Davis and Hunter suggest at the end of their introduction, today an essay on the idea of nature can have mo
Published in 1686, this work attacked prevailing notions of the natural world that depicted "Nature" as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. It represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the issues raised by the mechanical philosophy that emerged from the Scientific Revolution. This volume presents the first modern edition of the complete text, together with a historical introduction, a chronology of Boyle's life and notes on further reading.
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