By Robert Boyle
Released in 1686, this paintings attacked winning notions of the flora and fauna that depicted "Nature" as a sensible, benevolent and practical being. It represents one of many subtlest statements about the matters raised via the mechanical philosophy that emerged from the clinical Revolution. This quantity offers the 1st glossy version of the whole textual content, including a old creation, a chronology of Boyle's existence and notes on extra interpreting.
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