Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister, by Michelle DiMeo

• Autores: Justin Begley
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. Extra 2, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Plants in Early Modern Knowledge), págs. 492-494
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 296 pp. 10 halftones. ISBN: 978-0-226-73160-5.

    Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615–1691), haunts the historical record: remnants of her ideas are scattered throughout mid-seventeenth-century letters and the output of her eminent brother, Robert Boyle. In Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister, Michelle DiMeo adroitly weaves together the extant evidence to bring this spectral figure to life. In this, the first full intellectual biography of Ranelagh, DiMeo moves from Ranelagh’s childhood in Youghal, Ireland, in the home ...