The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080931522X ISBN 13: 9780809315222

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991

Synopsis

The first major collection of Boyle’s writings to be published since Thomas Birch’s eighteenth-century edition of his works presents material hitherto available only in the archives of the Royal Society.

This edition of Boyle’s Aretology (the study of moral virtue) and other moral essays from the late 1640s offers the intellectual and religious origins of Boyle’s most vital themes. John T. Harwood also includes two essays on moral topics, "Of Sin" and "Of Piety"; a sample of Boyle’s private meditations, "Joseph’s Mistress"; a short essay, "Of Time and Idleness"; and two guides to private meditation, "The Dayly Reflection" and "Of Thoughts." Harwood concludes the volume with a previously unpublished account of about seven hundred books in Boyle’s library at the time of his death.

About this title

About the Author:

John T. Harwood is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 080931522X
• ISBN 13: 9780809315222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Harwood John T.