Product Description: Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right...read more

Product Description: This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the most intimate and erotically charged to the reciprocities of village life...read more

Product Description: This is the first complete edition of Boyle's correspondence. More than a third of the letters presented here have never previously been published. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and comprehensive general index. The Correspondence of Robert Boyle is a British Academy Research Project...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee future events had long been regarded as a characteristic of the Scottish Highlands, but in the late seventeenth century interest in the phenomenon came to a head, stimulated by English scientific and philosophical curiosity about magic, particularly second sight...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first scholarly edition of Boyle's work to be published since 1772. The edition draws on the results of an intensive scrutiny of Boyle's vast archive at the Royal Society in London. Comprising over seventy volumes, the Boyle Papers have long tantalized scholars: this edition represents a crucial step towards the exploitation and full understanding of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first scholarly edition of Boyle's work to be published since 1772. The edition draws on the results of an intensive scrutiny of Boyle's vast archive at the Royal Society in London. Comprising over seventy volumes, the Boyle Papers have long tantalized scholars: this edition represents a crucial step towards the exploitation and full understanding of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first scholarly edition of Boyle's work to be published since 1772. The edition draws on the results of an intensive scrutiny of Boyle's vast archive at the Royal Society in London. Comprising over seventy volumes, the Boyle Papers have long tantalized scholars: this edition represents a crucial step towards the exploitation and full understanding of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This accessible, well-illustrated account of the birth and growth of the national preservation movement describes the history of the protection and appreciation of buildings, archaeological sites and other relics of Britain's man-made past...read more

Product Description: The image of the 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. These key early appraisals of Boyle by friends and contemporaries were selectively drawn on by Thomas Birch in his 1744 "Life of Boyle" and, through him, they have influenced all subsequent accounts of Boyle...read more

Product Description: The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation...read more

Product Description: `Individually excellent and scholarly essays... most illuminating and thought-provoking. A conspicuous feature of the collection is the heterogeneity of the scientific topics discussed.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW `Essential reading for all students of Hooke and of the context of Restoration science...read more

Product Description: In a series of detailed case studies, Michael Hunter presents a fresh view of the formative years of Britain's oldest scientific institution; The Royal Society of London, founded in 1660.