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    Biography, Culture, and Science: The Formative Years of Robert Boyle.Malcolm Oster - 1993 - History of Science 31 (2):177-226.
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    The scholar and the craftsman revisited: Robert Boyle as aristocrat and artisan.Malcolm Oster - 1992 - Annals of Science 49 (3):255-276.
    Summary The early background of Robert Boyle, a leading advocate of the mechanical philosophy at the Restoration, helps to illuminate his later understanding of both the relationship between gentleman naturalists and artisans, as well as that of theoretical abstraction and practical application in experimental philosophy and the manual arts. Boyle's agenda for ethical reconstruction emphasized practical moral knowledge and a transformation in intellectual values which, reinforced by the general outlook of the Hartlib circle, postulated the desirability of knowledge gleaned from (...)
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    A. Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xv + 468. ISBN 0-631-17906-2. £19.95.Malcolm Oster - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (3):358-360.
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    David Goodman and Colin A. Russell , The Rise of Scientific Europe, 1500–1800. Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton/The Open University, 1991. Pp. ix + 437. ISBN 0-340-55861-X. £14.99. [REVIEW]Malcolm Oster - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (2):235-236.
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    Marie Boas Hall, Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660–1727. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 207. ISBN 0-521-40503-3. £35.00, $59.95. [REVIEW]Malcolm Oster - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1):90-91.
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    Reijer Hooykaas, Robert Boyle: A study in science and Christian belief. English translation by Harry Van Dyke. Foreword by John H. Brooke and Michael hunter. Lanham, md and ancaster, on: University press of America and the Pascal centre for adVanced studies in faith and science, 1997. Pp. XXIV+156. Isbn 0-7618-0708-X. $36.50. [REVIEW]Malcolm Oster - 1999 - British Journal for the History of Science 32 (3):363-378.
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    Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, the Post-Italianate Edition, with a foreword by Umberto Eco, an afterword by Denis Donoghue and a Preface and Postface by the Author. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xxv + 320. ISBN 0-226-52086-2. $14.95. [REVIEW]Malcolm Oster - 1994 - British Journal for the History of Science 27 (3):368-369.
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