Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a devout evangelical Christian, a prominent scientist, a founder of the Royal Society, and someone interested in Life extension. Also founded a series of lectureships about the relation between science and religion.
- 1656-1668. At Oxford. “Experimental Philosophy Club” with John Wilkins, Christopher Wren, John Locke.
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- He and Robert Hooke complete an experiment.
- Robert Hooke was his assistant.
- "Boyle's Lectures". He endowed a series of lectures in defense of Christianity.
- Boyle's Gas Law: pressure and volume are related to each other
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...laws of motion...did not necessarily spring from the nature of matter, but depended on the will of the divine author of things.
- Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso, Works 5:521
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- Boyle was very religious. Tolerant of diversity within Anglican Church. Often claimed as a Puritan. Probably not.
- Boyle coined "Mechanical Philosophy" as a Christianized version of the Atomistic view of the universe.
- Robert Boyle's Scientific Todo List
- Boyle was a Baconian
- https://iep.utm.edu/boyle/
- https://biologos.org/articles/the-faith-of-a-great-scientist-robert-boyles-religious-life-attitudes-and-vocation
- Works
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…, are often seen as originators or precursors of transhumanism. Bacon, like Robert Boyle, and other members of the Royal Society, believed that the pursuit of science and technology was a religious imperative, and that it…
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Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the Possibility of the Resurrection (1675) by Robert Boyle https://archive.org/details/reconcilableness00boyluoft/page/4/mode/2up see Scientific Resurrection
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