Robert Boyle's role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged, and the complexity of his ideas has become increasingly apparent. This volume forms a sequel to Michael Hunter's two previous books: Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000) and The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of R

Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Boyle's Early Intellectual Evolution; Chapter 3 Boyle and the Early Royal Society; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 The Disquieted Mind in Casuistry and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9 'Physica Peregrinans, or the Travelling Naturalist';