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Check out the below email from the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science for a few on-line resources regarding and an upcoming lecture on Robert Boyle.  Hope to see some of you Monday, 7pm, Pine Street Church, Harrisburg, PA. If you're not able to make it, but interested in my notes, let me know.

The topic of next Monday's talk at Pine Street Church is Robert Boyle.  Some will recognize the name immediately: Boyle was a leading physical scientist during the Scientific Revolution, the Boyle behind "Boyle's Law," and one of the most influential creators of the modern scientific method.  He was an exquisitely gifted experimentalist who focused mainly on the physical properties of matter, but he also worked a bit in physiology and the philosophy of science.  Above all, he was the leading writer on science & Christianity during the Scientific Revolution -- much more so than Isaac Newton, Galileo, or anyone else.  If you want more background on Boyle before the lecture, browse the various parts of the Boyle Project:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/

For a short introduction to my talk, read http://home.messiah.edu/~tdavis/ChristianHistoryEssay.htm.  A much more detailed and wide-ranging version was published as "Robert Boyle's Religious Life, Attitudes, and Vocation” Science and Christian Belief 19.2 (2007): 117-38.  That is the essay that some have purchased as a photocopy.  The abstract for that one is http://home.messiah.edu/~tdavis/Boyle%20Abstract.htm.

Ted Davis, Messiah College, History of Science

P.S. If you're a Robert Boyle fan and/or expert with insights about his Religious Life, Attitudes, and Vocation, please share them here.  If you'd happen to have questions you'd like me to ask Ted, fire away and I'll bring them along Monday evening.