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Robert Boyle, 1627-91
A re-evaluation of Boyle in the light of new evidence of his tortured religious life and his difficult relations with his contemporaries.
The Occult Laboratory
Magic, science and second sight in 17c Scottish Higlands, with new edition of Kirk's Secret Commonwealth.
Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy
In his introduction Michael Hunter draws on these studies to propound a new theory of intellectual change in this key period. Traditionally it has been seen in terms of simple polarisations - modernity against obfuscation, orthodoxy against subversion. Here, it is argued that such polarisations represent influential but idealised extremes, to which thinkers individually responded; scholars must in future have due regard to the balance between ideal types and individual complexities thus revealed.
Boyle
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. This biography of Boyle navigates Boyle's voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers.
Science and Society in Restoration England
This book, first published in 1981, provides a systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the early history of the Royal Society, Professor Hunter examines the key issues concerning the role of science in late seventeenth-century England.
John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning
“Though it is as a biographer that he is now most widely known, the author of Brief Lives was in his day a scientist and antiquary of note. His Monumenta Britannica was the first English book that can be called archaeological in the modern sense of the word, and at his death he left a whole series of other writings ranging from topography and natural science to education, magic and folklore. That these are so little known is perhaps largely due to the vicissitudes of their publishing history, for some of the most important have never appeared in print. This new book discusses and evaluates all Aubrey's writings, analysing the development of his ideas. It lays stress on the interrelation of...
Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
An important treatise by one of the leading mechanical philosophers of the seventeenth century.
The Boyle Papers
Robert Boyle (1627-91) was the most influential British scientist of the late seventeenth century. His huge archive, which has been at the Royal Society since 1769, has only recently been explored, leading to a new understanding of many aspects of Boyle's thought. This volume brings together the essential materials for understanding the Boyle Papers. It includes a revised version of Michael Hunter's fundamental study of the archive, first published in 1992, which elucidates its history and the way in which handwriting evidence can be used to identify chronological strata within it, thus making it possible to trace the development of Boyle's ideas. Other chapters deal with such components of ...
From Books to Bezoars
This well-illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on the great eighteenth-century physician, naturalist, and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose extensive holdings formed the basis of the British Museum and its offspring, the Natural History Museum and the British Library. The colonial milieu within which Sloane operated gets prominence here, particularly the time he spent in Jamaica. Attention is paid to his enormous network of acquaintances and correspondents throughout the world as well as to the way his collecting activities permeated every aspect of his life. Other essays consider the museum specimens accumulated by Sloane--both natural and man-made--shedding new light on his aims for acquiring and organizing them. A fascinating look at the man behind three of the United Kingdom's most famous museums, From Books to Bezoars will appeal to students and scholars of eighteenth century studies, early modern science, and the history of the book.
The Decline of Magic
A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defend...
