Marie Boas Hall

Marie Boas Hall Fellow of the British Academy FBA (née Marie Boas, October 18, 1919 – February 23, 2009) was an American historian of science and author of several books. She was elected in 1955 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 a Fellow of the British Academy. She shared the 1981 George Sarton Medal with her husband A. Rupert Hall. Quotes Foremost among the Theoretical chemistry theoretical chemists of the age, one the few highly-skilled chemists who made contributions to natural philosophy as well, was Robert Boyle. Because Boyle's first published scientific work, the New Experiments, Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Weight of the Air and its Effects dealt with physics, a new branch physics to which he made lasting contributions, his public reputation has always been greater as a physicist than as a chemist. Indeed, in his own day chemists sometimes complained that he put too much physics into his chemistry. But he thought of himself as primarily a chemist and his influence on chemistry was enormous. Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-century Chemistry 1958 Cambridge University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=Jng6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA2 2 (239 pages) Algorism, reckoning with pen and paper and Arabic numerals (modern arithmetic), instead of the older practice of using an abacus and Roman numerals, had been known to scholars since the introduction (in the 12 century twelfth century) of the Hindu-Arabic numerals; but it was the 16th century sixteenth century which saw the production of a spate of simple and practical books on elementary arithmetic. These, mainly in the various vernaculars, were the contribution of mathematicians to merchants, artisans and sailors. The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 Dover classics of science and mathematics; Dover science books pbk reprint Courier Corporation 1994 9780486281155 https://books.google.com/books?id=TnW2YIrn2pEC&pg=PA22 22 (376 pages; 1st published in 1962) Had Henry Oldenburg, as he had become by 1653, died before his fortieth birthday he would be recorded in English history as a minor German diplomat who came on a mission from the History of Bremen (city) free City of Bremen to Oliver Cromwell, stayed for some time in in England and was associated with the still young scientist Robert Boyle, to whom he wrote a series of letters of some interest for the history of science. Because he lived to the end of 1677, dying at the age of about fifty-eight, he achieved a European-wide reputation. During the last fifteen years of his life he was famous in the world of learning as one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society and as the founder of the Philosophical Transactions, the first and oldest truly scientific journal, and thus became the first professional scientific administrator. Introduction Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society 2002 Oxford University Press 9780191545313 https://books.google.com/books?id=kxRREAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11 xi–xii (quote from p. xi; 384 pages) External links Category:1919 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Historians from Massachusetts Category:Historians from the United States Category:Historians of science Category:Indiana University faculty Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States