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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Samuel Clarke (section Boyle Lectures (1704))
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christian Trust, OCLC 754656873 Product Code 5055307601776 (November 2011) Boyle Lectures Professor Keith Ward Archived 11 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine...
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the established church: one of these was Richard Biscoe, who gave the Boyle Lectures in the late 1730s. However, NGUC soon acquired ministers who were Arian...
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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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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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1881-2; and Ramsden preacher at Cambridge in 1890. He delivered the Boyle lectures at Whitehall in 1879-80, The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist...
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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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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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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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and its Critics (Boyle Lectures), 1860. Reprinted by Kessinger (2010) ISBN 1-1670-1518-5 The Divine Plan of Revelation (Boyle Lectures), 1863. Reprinted...
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Robertson. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1905. Bentley, Richard. Eight Boyle Lectures on Atheism. (British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th...
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Cleric in north Wales and writer on theological issues who delivered the Boyle Lectures (1766–68) William Wynn 1727 1735 BA (1730), MA (1735) Welsh cleric and...
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