Other inquiries concerning the sea.

doi:10.1098/rstl.1665.0117

Other inquiries concerning the sea.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1665.0117 ◽

1665 ◽

Vol 1 (18) ◽

pp. 315-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Robert Boyle ◽

Knowing That ◽

History Of

The publisher of these tracts, knowing that the Honorable Robert Boyle had not left unconsidered the natural history of the sea, of which subject the late, and these present papers, have entertained the reader as to the observables of its flux and reflux; He was on this occasion instant, with that gentleman to impart to him, for publication, these heads of inquiries, he had drawn up, touching that subject: which having obtained (though the author desires, they may be lookt upon as unfinisht) he thus subjoyns.

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Locke, Boyle and Peter Stahl

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1995.0022 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 185-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Human Blood ◽

John Locke ◽

Practical Work ◽

Robert Hooke ◽

Robert Boyle ◽

History Of

John Locke and Robert Boyle first met at some time before May 1660 but do not seem to have become closely acquainted until 1664 when they were both in Oxford. 1 Locke’s notebooks for 1664-67 contain many short entries ending ‘Mr.Boyle’, which appear to be details that Locke received from Boyle personally. 2 In his work, Boyle relied on various assistants, quite apart from craftsmen like glass-blowers and blacksmiths, who ranged from his amanuensis, needed because of his poor sight, and his servants who watched experiments through the night, to skilled collaborators like Robert Hooke. 3 In addition, Boyle was in touch with independent workers, notably Richard Lower whose name appears in Locke’s notebooks some time before Boyle’s; 4 and Dewhurst suggested that Locke was also a member of this group. 5 It is certainly true that Locke provided Boyle with barometric and meteorological readings about this time and that 21 of his headings for the ‘chymicall Analysis’ of blood are related to Boyle’s 46 headings in his Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood (1683/4). 6 But it is going too far to conclude from Locke’s practical notes on blood that he was then acting as Boyle’s assistant. Those notes come from Bodleian MS. Locke f.25. What they describe are not ‘experiments’ done by Locke, Boyle or anyone else. They are a record of the practical work Locke did when he attended a course of lectures in 1666 which were given by Peter Stahl, the German chemist brought by Boyle to Oxford in 1659.

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Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s0007087406009083 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

MICHAEL HUNTER

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Royal Society ◽

Early Years ◽

Francis Bacon ◽

Philosophical Method ◽

Robert Boyle ◽

Systematic Data ◽

Reciprocal Exchange ◽

Important Development ◽

History Of

This paper documents an important development in Robert Boyle's natural-philosophical method – his use from the 1660s onwards of ‘heads’ and ‘inquiries’ as a means of organizing his data, setting himself an agenda when studying a subject and soliciting information from others. Boyle acknowledged that he derived this approach from Francis Bacon, but he had not previously used it in his work, and the reason why it came to the fore when it did is not apparent from his printed and manuscript corpus. It is necessary to look beyond Boyle to his milieu for the cause, in this case to the influence on him of the Royal Society. Whereas the Royal Society in its early years is often seen as putting into practice a programme pioneered by Boyle, this crucial methodological change on his part seems rather to have been stimulated by the society's early concern for systematic data-collecting. In this connection, it is here shown that a key text, Boyle's influential ‘General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or small’, published in Philosophical Transactions in 1666, represents more of a shared initiative between him and the society than has hitherto been appreciated.

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Michael Hunter (ed.), Robert Boyle's ‘Heads’ and ‘Inquiries’, Robert Boyle Project Occasional Papers No. 1, London, Robert Boyle Project, Birkbeck, University of London, 2005, pp. xvi, 37 (0-9551608-0-4; 978-0-9551608-0-6). Michael Hunter and Harriet Knight (eds), Unpublished material relating to Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the natural history of human blood, Robert Boyle Project Occasional Papers No. 2, London, Robert Boyle Project, Birkbeck, University of London, 2005, pp. xv, 50 (0-9551608-1-2; 978-0-9551608-1-3). Copies of both books may be downloaded as PDF files from the Robert Boyle website at www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle.

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300001344 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 261-262

Author(s):

Rose-Mary Sargent

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Human Blood ◽

Robert Boyle ◽

History Of

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Articles of inquiries concerning mines; as, to the neighbouring country about them; the soyl where they are; the signes of them; the structure and other particulars belonging to the mines themselves; the nature and circumstances of ore; and the reduction of ore into metal

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1665.0125 ◽

1665 ◽

Vol 1 (19) ◽

pp. 330-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Robert Boyle ◽

Neighbouring Country ◽

History Of

What the Honourable Robert Boyle gave the reader cause to hope for, in Numb. 11. when he was pleased to impart those general heads for a natural history of a country, there publish'd; He is not un-mindful to perform, by enlarging them as occasion serves, with particular and subordinate inquiries.

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How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Hannes Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Intentional Stance ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Shared Intentionality ◽

History Of ◽

Group Thinking ◽

Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

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