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Book SynopsisThe availability of a paperback version of Boyle''s philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte''s Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars. --Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
Trade Review“Boyle lets Cavendish speak for herself as much as possible, while providing tools necessary to analyze the
Letters. . ."
“Introducing the most essential topics Cavendish covers in her
Letters, Boyle goes through her philosophical system and portrays her as a philosopher with a wide variety of interests, who provided arguments for, for example, self-moving matter, perspectives on nature, epistemology, and, albeit comparatively briefly, philosophy of religion. Boyle herein portrays Cavendish as a knowledgeable natural scientist. . . Boyle obviously understands Cavendish’s way of thinking and presents it accessibly to some very lucky students who have access to this complementary work, which reestablishes the letters as one of Cavendish’s thus far all-too-often neglected texts.”
- Sina Menke, University of Marburg, on H-Net Reviews
