| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Race, gender, and science
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Race, gender, and science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index. |
| Contents |
Now we see it -- Now we don't -- Economics, politics, and religion: Stuart conflicts with Parliament -- Civil war approaches -- Intersection of class and gender politics -- Boyle family's religious and class politics -- More class and gender politics -- Boyle's gender politics -- Boyle's background reading -- Boyle's hermeticism, magic, and active principles -- Hermeticism, hylozoism, and radical politics -- Boyle's concern over the sectaries -- Boyle's objections to hylozoism -- Experimental support for the corpuscular philosophy -- Boyle's law of gases -- Production of an alternative law -- Methodological considerations -- "The data alone proved Boyle's hypothesis" -- Good science. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. |
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Boyle's law.
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Boyle's law. |
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Hylozoism.
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Hylozoism. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Potter, Elizabeth. Gender and Boyle's law of gases. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000, 2001 0253339162 (DLC) 00061398 |
| ISBN |
0253108462 (electronic book) |
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9780253108463 (electronic book) |
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0253339162 (print) |
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0253214556 (print) |
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9780253214553 (print) |
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9780253339164 (print) |
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