Robert Boyle — EEBO-TCP A29031, keyed from the 1663 edition.
The first part of the Usefulness — five essays addressed to Pyrophilus on the use of natural philosophy to the mind of man: that the study of nature leads to the knowledge and worship of its Author, that it is a kind of religious service, and, in the long digression of the fourth essay, against those who would keep God out of the workings of matter altogether. The second part, on the uses of natural philosophy to medicine and trade, is not theology and is not given.
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Contents (7)
- The Publisher to the Reader
- The Author’s Advertisement About the Following Essays
- Essay 1. Of Its Usefulness in Reference to the Mind of Man
- Essay 2. Of the Same
- Essay 3. Containing a Continuation of the Former
- Essay 4. Containing a requisite Digression concerning those that would exclude the Deity from intermedling with Matter
- Essay 5. Wherein the Discourse interrupted by the late Digression, is resumed and concluded