Boyle, Mary

Boas, Marie. Boyle as a theoretical scientist. ISIS 41. 

Boas, Marie. An early version of Boyle s Sceptical Chymist. Isis 45 (1954) 153-168. 

Boas, Marie. Robert Boyle and seventeenth-century chemistry. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1958. vii, 239p. 

Sargent, Rose-Marie. The diffident naturalist Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment. Chicago (IL) Univ of Chicago P, 1995. xi, 355p. ISBN 0-226-73495-1... 

A fine summary of Boyle s chemistry can be found in Marie Boas, Robert Boyle and Sev-enteenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press, 1958). 

From the Advertisement to Robert Boyle, Mechanical Origin and Production of QualitieSy as given in the source-book, Marie Boas, Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy (Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press, 1965), 234. 

Boas, Marie (1958), Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry, Cambridge University Press Cambridge. 

Quotations in this paragraph are from Bacons works, as quoted by Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1995), 51. 

Marie Boas Hall, Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1958), presents Boyle as a corpuscular philosopher. Steven Shapin and Simon Shaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1985), discuss Boyles work with the air pump in its social and rhetorical contexts. More recendy, Rose-Mary Sargent, The Dijfi-... 

Mary Boyle [4] Lecturer and Demonstrator, Royal Holloway College... 

Mary Boyle,47 like Field, another petitioner for admission to the Chemical Society, was also a stalwart of the Chemistry Department at RHC. She was bom in 1874 and entered the Royal College of Science in 1898. Boyle took the full three-year course for chemistry before transferring to RHC in 1901, where she gained her B.Sc. after one year of study. She remained at RHC, firstly as a Demonstrator, then Assistant Lecturer in 1906, rising to Staff Lecturer. 

The classic account is Marie Boas, Robert Boyle. See also Boas s introductory essay in Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 1965), 81-93. On the role of chemistry in shaping Boyle s experimental philosophy, see Rose-Mary Sargent, Learning from Experience Boyle s Construction of an Experimental Philosophy, in Robert Boyle Reconsidered, ed. M. Hunter (Cambridge University Press, 1994) idem. The Diffident Naturalist (University of Chicago Press, 1995). 

Homberg seems to have introduced a new areometer a couple of years before this since he says in 1699 that he did so six years ago. On Boyle s use of specific gravity in the analysis and identification of compounds, see Marie Boas, Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 1958), 132. 

Buchanan, Peta Dewar, J. F. Gibson, and Marie Boas Hall. Experimental History of Science Boyle s Colour Changes. Ambix 25, 1978, 208-210. 

Marie Boas [Hall], Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1958) A. R. Hall, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800 (Boston Beacon Press, 1966), 327-28 Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter Theory and the Development of Chemistry (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1970), esp. 83-123 Mi Gyung Kim, Affinity, That Elusive Dream (Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 2003), e g. 11-13, 83. 

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