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Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister (Synthesis) by Michelle DiMeo is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister (Synthesis) about?
"For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. The details of her relationship with Robert Boyle, her younger brother, have mostly remained a mystery, even though Boyle, "the father of chemistry," spent the last twenty-three years of his life residing in her home, with the two dying only one week apart in 1691. The dominant depiction of Lady Ranelagh shows her as a maternal figure to Boyle or as a patroness of European intellectuals of the Hartlib ci
Who reads Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister (Synthesis)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michelle DiMeo
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226731605
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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