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  1. In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627–91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an ...

    • Robert Boyle
    • 1996
  2. In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being.

  3. Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. $64.99 (X) textbook. Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Real Author: Robert Boyle. Editors: Edward B. Davis, Messiah College, Pennsylvania. Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, University of London. Date Published: November 1996. availability: Available.

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  4. A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature [Book Review] Robert Boyle. Dialogue 38 (4):894-895 ( 1999 ) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract.

    • Robert Boyle
    • 1996
  5. Science in Context. 2021. Argument Historians have claimed that the two closely related concepts of animism and natural teleology were both decisively rejected in the Scientific Revolution. They tout Robert Boyle as an early… Expand. 4. Highly Influenced. PDF. 25 Excerpts.

  6. 7 de nov. de 1996 · 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...

  7. Robert Boyle's Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature. (1686) is one of the key texts of the Scientific Revolution. In it, Boyle took issue with various views of the natural world, prevalent both in antiquity and in his own time, which saw nature as a wise, benevolent and essentially purposeful being.