...David Marno This essay traces shifts in meditative practice from Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises to the experimental philosopher Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections , showing how Boyle's text participates in the evolution of the concept of “attention” as it changes from a spiritual...

.... As Robert Boyle put it, the study of nature would instill “sentiments of devotion and particular virtues.” This feature of experimental science represents a significant link with the classical notion of philosophy (including natural philosophy), which stressed the importance of the moral formation...

... Goodman, John Milton, John Wesley). There is evidence of a parallel development in scientific circles, as practitioners like Robert Boyle reflected on the necessary role of implicit faith in the collective production of knowledge, a project to which the ideal image of the self-determining individual...

... Exercises to the experimental philosopher Rob- ert Boyle’s Occasional Reflections, showing how Boyle’s text participates in the evolution of the concept of attention as it shifts from a spiritual ideal to Picciotto / Devotion and Intellectual Labor  11 a mental...

... Boyle, the General Chapter of 1256 gave instructions to each province to send twenty pounds of the coinage of Tours to the prior of the Dominican convent of Saint-Jacques in Paris to cover the cost of making common exemplars. These exemplars could have been prepared at Saint-Jacques, under the control...

... of Relics in Post-­Reformation England  531 – 548 Marno, David Easy Attention: Ignatius of Loyola and Robert Boyle  135 – 161 Phillippy, Patricia Sidney Montagu and the Sacramental Sign: Memorial and Sacred Objects in Post-­Reformation England  549 – 583 Phillips, Joshua Labors Lost...

... / 2007 Boyle, Robert. Boyle on Atheism. Edited by J. J. MacIntosh. Toronto Stud- ies in Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxv, 493 pp. $95.00. [Collection of Robert Boyle’s writings concerning atheism, culled from the Boyle manuscripts in the Royal Society Library in London...

... of understanding might not, on occasion, actually be an obstacle to understanding. This new questioning begins in earnest in the 1660s with the controversy over Boyle’s pneumatics and with the controversy over Newton’s establishment of the heterogeneity of white light.16 Boyle and Newton were...

... generosity. 11 Gregory, “Contents and Discontents of (Post)modernity.” 12 For a truly prescient and masterful analysis of these tendencies, see Nicholas Boyle’s 1988 “Understanding Thatcherism.” For Boyle, Thatcherism inaugurates a new set of civic and administrative practices and should...

... as Laudian Professor into the nineteenth century held the Regius Professorship of Hebrew concomitantly. Arabic scholarship was also institutionally embedded in a theological context. Thomas Hyde, who was appointed Laudian Professor at Pococke's death, told Robert Boyle in 1671: “if out of those my Eastern...

... maps, 3 genealogies $40.00. DiMeo, Michelle. Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister . Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 288 pp., 10 figs. $45.00. Earenfight, Theresa. Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England . University Park...

... Brown, and Oleg Grabar, eds. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press Reference Library. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii, 780 pp., 18 plates, 2 maps. $49.95. Boyle, Leonard E., O.P. Paleografia Latina Medievale: Introduzione bibli...

... (2011): 61–87. 15 Hall translated two Protestant utopian works by Johann Valentin Andreae for Samuel Hartlib, and Hartlib encouraged Hall to write with Robert Boyle and Benjamin Worsley, two prominent chymists within the Hartlib Circle. However, Hall's extant correspondence with Hartlib, Boyle...

... of a gentleman like Robert Boyle and the allegedly more profit-­minded labors of a “mechanic” and “philosophical servant” like Robert Hooke.66 Steven Shapin sums up the opinion of Bishop Thomas Sprat, founding member of the Royal Society of London, to the effect that “there was something about...

..., Samuel Hartlib, and Robert Boyle, Evelyn was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, an institution dedicated from its very inception to what Evelyn calls “Real Philosophy.” In the prefatory letter to Acetaria dedicating the book to John Somers, Lord Chancellor of England and president...

... Boyle, “The Fourth Lateran Council and Manuals of Popular Theology,” in The Pop- ular Literature of Medieval England, ed. Thomas J. He ernan (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, – at The manuscripts that include both A Christian Mannes Bileeve and The Clensyng...

... maps, 14 color plates. $29.95. 7. Gender and works of women Boyle, Margaret E. Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain. Toronto Iberic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. viii, 171 pp. $55.00. Cox, Elizabeth, Liz Herbert McAvoy, and Roberta...

... Racial Thought, 1300 – 1735. McGill-­Queens Studies in the History of Ideas, vol. 63. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xxvii, 678 pp.; 2 maps, 28 figs. $125.00, paper $39.95. Malcolmson, Cristina. Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift...

..., and accompanied by annotations tracing the biblical references and detailed notes explaining the visual iconography.] Nogarola, Isotta. Defense of Eve: A Latin Text of the “De Pari aut Impari Evae atque Adae Peccato” with Running Vocabulary and Commentary . Edited by Finn P. Boyle, et al. The Experrecta...

... / New Books across the Disciplines  631 Steane, John, and James Ayres. Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region, c. 1300­ – 1840. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013. xvi, 463 pp.; color and black-­ and-­white illus. throughout. $90.00. 10. Theater Boyle, Margaret E. Unruly Women: Performance...