Boyle, Richard

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report Dr. Richard T. Barber (Duke University), Dr. Edward Boyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi (Tulane University), Dr. Katherine H. Freeman (Penn State), Dr. Dennis A. Hansell (University... 

Boyle, R. (1683), New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, Richard Davis, London,... 

The mechanical philosophy has never been an unproblematic category. E. J. Dijksterhuis already pointed out a number of senses in which mechanical could be taken in his Mechanization of the World Picture of 1961, and Richard Westfall s Construction of Modem Science is built on the distinction between mechanisms and mechanics. One could readily devote a book to the different definitions that historians and philosophers have applied— implicitly or explicitly—to mechanism and the mechanical philosophy. My goal, however, is not to arrive at an essentialist picmre of mechanism taken in a transhistorical sense. Instead, I hope to provide some modest clarification of the relationship that Robert Boyle conceived to exist between chymistry and the mechanical philosophy, the latter term being one that he surely did more than any other figure... 

Guerrero, Pablo, R. 1999. Evaluation Capacity Development in Developing Countries Applying the Lessons from Experience. In Richard Boyle and Donald Lemaire, eds.. Building Effective Evaluation Capacity Lessons from Practice, pp. 177—94. New Brunswick, NJ Transaction Publishers. 

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