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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle
(1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which
depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being.
Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day,
believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal
machine, fashioned by an infinite, personal God. In this cogent
treatise, he drew on his scientific findings, his knowledge of
contemporary medicine and his deep reflection on theological and
philosophical issues, arguing that it was inappropriate both
theologically and scientifically to speak of Nature as if it had a
mind of its own: instead, the only true efficient causes of things
were the properties and powers given to matter by God. As such, A
Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature represents
one of the subtlest statements concerning the philosophical issues
raised by the mechanical philosophy to emerge from the period of
the scientific revolution.
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