Description: Contents Introduction Part I: The Intersection of Gender and Science: Now We See It. Now We Don't. 1. Now We See It 2. Now We Don't Part II: Boyle's Work in Context 1. Economics, Politics and Religion: Stuart Conflicts With Parliament 2. Civil War Approaches 3. The Intersection of Class and Gender Politics 4. The Boyle Family's Religious and Class Politics 5. More Class and Gender Politics 6. Boyle's Gender Politics 7. Boyle's Background Reading 8. Boyle's Hermeticism, Magic and Active Principles 9. Hermeticism, Hylozooism and Radical Politics 10. Boyle's Concern Over the Sectaries 11. Boyle's Objections to Hylozooism 12. Experimental Support for the Corpuscular Philosophy 13. Boyle's Law of Gases 14. The Production of An Alternative Law 15. Methodological Considerations 16. "The Data Alone Proved Boyle's Hypothesis" 17. Good Science Conclusion

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