• The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle, a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Under...
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    Bishop Gilbert Burnet. In his will, Boyle endowed a series of lectures that came to be known as the Boyle Lectures. Boyle's great merit as a scientific investigator...
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  • The Robert Boyle Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club)...
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    with Newton. Clarke was Boyle lecturer for two years, and produced two books. The Newtonian theologians used the Boyle Lectures to attack opponents (Thomas...
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    Francis Martin Patrick Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer. Boyle first gained widespread recognition as a regular panellist...
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  • existence of a transcendent cause, the creator a God. In his first set of Boyle lectures, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1705), Clarke presents...
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    move was intended to undermine arguments of deists and sceptics. The Boyle lectures dwelt on the connections between biblical prophecies, dramatic physical...
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    The term was first used by Lord Kelvin in 1893 in the second Robert Boyle Lecture at the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club which was published...
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    1787, M.A. 1790, B.D. & D.D. 1813. He delivered the Boyle Lectures in 1804 and the Bampton Lectures in 1814, and was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford...
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    Science Ireland established the Walton Lectures on Science and Religion (an initiative similar to the Boyle Lectures). David Wilkinson, Denis Alexander,...
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    were: The Wrath of Cain. A Boyle Lecture, 1822. The Connexion of Christianity with Human Happiness, from the Boyle Lectures, 1823, 2 vols. The Life of...
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  • 7027, Top. Oxon. c. 827 Oxford lectures on philosophy, 1910–1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1908–23. Oxford lectures on history, 1904–1923, Oxford,...
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    description of a bdelloid rotifer. In 1698 he gave the seventh series of the Boyle Lectures, Atheistical Objections against the Being of God and His Attributes...
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  • annual series of "Boyle Lectures", endowed and published from the society's subscription. Among the people who delivered those lectures were William Ramsay...
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  • Sunshine (2007 film) (category Films directed by Danny Boyle)
    2007 British science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. Starring an ensemble cast featuring Cillian...
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    peuple de Dieu condemned for having followed this theory. In the 1713–4 Boyle Lectures, Benjamin Ibbot cited Hardouin's belief in the spuriousness of nearly...
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    evangelical Anglican academic journal. He delivered the Boyle Lectures in 1874 and 1875 and the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford in 1879. He was Select...
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    Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor...
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  • London's Mansion House Scholarship Scheme and a trustee of the revived Boyle Lectures. "To strengthen Mellon Trust Tregoning brings UK talent". Financial...
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    nature, time and the future", Theology, vol. 114, no. 6 (Nov 2011). Boyle Lecture, with response by A. J. Torrance, doi:10.1177/0040571X11418439 The items...
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  • Edinburgh Gifford Lectures for 2007 in a series titled "Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation". In these lectures Conway Morris explained...
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  • William Whiston in the Boyle lectures, which Newton supervised. Newton wrote to Bentley, just before Bentley delivered the first lecture, that: when I wrote...
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    Lectures (inaugural and keynote lectures): 1998, Robert Boyle Lecture at the University of Oxford. 2000, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. These...
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    abridgment of the lecture founded by the Honble Robert Boyle (1737) Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture (1724) Remarks upon...
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    preached in his own church in January 1700, were issued with other Boyle lectures delivered between 1691 and 1732, in A Defence of Natural and Revealed...
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  • cosmological argument, similar to that of Samuel Clarke in his first Boyle Lecture, it has been applied to ontological arguments as well. Immanuel Kant...
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    Waller, R.S. Secr. 1705. Lectures de potentia restitutiva 1678 copy of Hooke's Lectures de potentia restitutiva Title page of Lectures de potentia restitutiva...
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    The Boyle temperature, named after Robert Boyle, is formally defined as the temperature for which the second virial coefficient, B 2 ( T ) {\displaystyle...
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  • Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, CH, PC (31 August 1923 – 28 September 1981), known as Sir Edward Boyle, 3rd Baronet, between 1945...
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    electrons through surfaces and surface films; being the thirty-first Robert Boyle lecture. Oxford University Press. 1929. with E. A. Guggenheim: Statistical thermodynamics:...
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