Boyle On Fire

"Boyle on Fire examines Robert Boyle's work concerning a method of experiment common in the seventeenth century called Fire Analysis. In the Sceptical Chymist (1661), Boyle attacked elemental theories of chemical explanation primarily by raising objections against Aristotelian and Paracelsian interpretations of fire analysis. The book reconstructs Boyle's 'corpuscular' account of fire analysis and then compares it to these objections. This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, characteristics that have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise."--Jacket.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Continuum International Publishing Group

מהדורות

1

עמודים

192

ISBN

9780826478276

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata