Irish PhilosophyNov 28, 2022

Among the daughters of the #GreatEarl in that @EngHistRev review https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceac164/6843116
was #LadyRanelagh , member of the Hartlib Circle, chemist & thinker, "the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years" (according to Gilbert Burnet)

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/
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Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics and Place, by Ann-Maria Walsh

Women’s writing in early modern Ireland continues to be a richly expanding field, advanced further by Ann-Maria Walsh’s new study of the daughters of the first

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Among the many notable people #LadyRanelagh hosted in London was the healer Valentine Greatrakes (already known to her brother Roger Boyle, as his neighbour).

Both she and her brother #RobertBoyle were interested in the debate around Greatrakes ability (which failed to relieve the suffering of #MaryConway). A pamphlet on Greatrakes was dedicated to Robert Boyle, arguing the former's ability could be explained both naturally & miraculously. (DiMeo, pp. 146-7)

Greatrakes died #otd 1683.

Nov 28, 2022 at 2:54pmWeb