| Reinhard Bendix - 1989 - 470 páginas
...cit., p. 127. Hence also the illuminating title of Robert Boyle's The Christian Virtuoso which reads "shewing that by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy,...assisted, than indisposed to be a good Christian." 37. Bacon, "Novum Organum," op. cit., p. 82. 38. Bacon, "The Great Instauration," op. cit., p. 13.... | |
| Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 páginas
...agreed with Robert Boyle himself: that "sceptical chemist" (after the title of his 1661 book) thought that "by being addicted to experimental philosophy...rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian" (The Christian Virtuoso, 1690). By "experimental philosophy" he means Bacon's method, which he compares... | |
| Mary Ellen Waithe - 1987 - 349 páginas
...Martineau: An Essay in Comprehension. London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1927. Boyle, Robert. The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That by being addicted...Assisted, than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian. The First Part. By THRB Fellow of the Royal Society. London: In the Savoy, Edw. Jones, 1690. Bryant,... | |
| Richard W. F. Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin - 1992 - 312 páginas
...ascribe everything in nature to chance. 49 These ideas are developed further in his late treatise, The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That, by being addicted...rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian (1690). 50 Boyle elaborated this theme in The Excellency of Theology, Compared to Natural Philosophy... | |
| Michael Hunter - 2003 - 256 páginas
...Aerial Noctiluca: Or Some New Phenomena, and a Process of A Factitious Self-shining Substance (1680) The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That by Being Addicted...Assisted, than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian (1690) Appendix to The Christian Virtuoso, ed. Henry Miles, first published in Birch's 1744 edition... | |
| Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - 1916 - 248 páginas
...detecting the adulteration of drugs by their weight in water and his "Christian Virtuoso," showing that by being addicted to experimental philosophy...assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian." It would not be right to close this sketch without a further reference to his sister, Lady Ranelagh,... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1996 - 216 páginas
...goodness and power. This was a subject on which he wrote at length, reaching a climax with his The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That by Being addicted...rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian (1690). Boyle had undergone a conversion experience during his adolescence, when like Martin Luther... | |
| Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 páginas
...the Reconcilableness of Reason and Religion. In 1690, the year before he died, Boyle published The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing That by Being Addicted...Rather Assisted Than Indisposed to Be a Good Christian. (A "virtuoso" was an amateur scientist.) Newton and Boyle interacted. Newton studied Boyle's work and... | |
| Walter de Gruyter & Co - 1999 - 762 páginas
...Form der Gotteserkenntnis sprechen. Robert Boyle widmete dieser Frage später ein ganzes Buch: The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That by being addicted...Assisted, than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian (1690). Es ist auch nicht erkennbar, daß man die Partikularisierung der Naturerkenntnis in den einzelnen... | |
| Francis Oakley - 1999 - 382 páginas
...Vulgarly received notion of Nature, ibid., 162-64, 197-98, 211, 216, 213; The Christian Virtuoso: showing that by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy,...rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian, ibid., 520-21. The episode of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace (which Boyle invokes twice in the above-cited... | |
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