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Irish Philosophy<p>Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, woman of letters &amp; member of the Hartlib Circle, died at Pall Mall London <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1691.</p><p>DIB: <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-katherine-a4330" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-ka</span><span class="invisible">therine-a4330</span></a></p><p>Newstalk podcast: <br /><a href="https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-talking-history/katherine-jones-viscountess-ranelagh-life-science" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newstalk.com/podcasts/highligh</span><span class="invisible">ts-from-talking-history/katherine-jones-viscountess-ranelagh-life-science</span></a></p><p>The “Incomparable&quot; Lady Ranelagh: <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ranelagh/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophyOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@rmathematicus" class="u-url mention">@<span>rmathematicus</span></a></span> review of Michelle DiMeo&#39;s book &quot;Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister&quot;. </p><p>Not just an elder sister: <a href="https://wp.me/py7Pg-23G" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wp.me/py7Pg-23G</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophy</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p>Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, member of the Hartlib Circle, was born on this day on 1615.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/dib" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dib</span></a> bio: <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-katherine-a4330" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-ka</span><span class="invisible">therine-a4330</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Podcast</span></a>: The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh <a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/the-almost-forgotten-story-of-katherine-jones-lady-ranelagh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencehistory.org/distillatio</span><span class="invisible">ns/podcast/the-almost-forgotten-story-of-katherine-jones-lady-ranelagh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Blogpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blogpost</span></a>: The Incomparable Lady Ranelagh <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ranelagh/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophyOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a></p>
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Irish Philosophy<p>31 Dec: <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertBoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RobertBoyle</span></a> died in the early hours of 31st December 1691 (often given as 30th Dec). </p><p>Chemist (encouraged by his sister <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a>), famous for Boyle&#39;s Law (volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure &amp; vice versa). </p><p>A key figure in the development of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NewPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewPhilosophy</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a>), making experiment central and espousing a mechanistic theory of matter. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SEP</span></a>: <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boyle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plato.stanford.edu/entries/boy</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DIB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DIB</span></a> bio: <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/boyle-robert-a0858" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dib.ie/biography/boyle-robert-</span><span class="invisible">a0858</span></a></p><p>Omg: <a href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shannon_Portrait_of_the_Hon_Robert_Boyle.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/F</span><span class="invisible">ile:The_Shannon_Portrait_of_the_Hon_Robert_Boyle.jpg</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophyOTD</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p>Anne Finch was born <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> 1631. She was married to Edward Conway, later (in 1755) the 3rd Viscount Conway (English) and 3rd Viscount Killultagh (Irish). </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AnneConway" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AnneConway</span></a> was never in Ireland but she had Irish connections: she corresponded with philosophers <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertBoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RobertBoyle</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DorothyMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DorothyMoore</span></a> (and possibly <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a>). </p><p>She also knew <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JeremyTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JeremyTaylor</span></a>. Her husband brought Taylor to Portmore Co. Antrim in 1658, probably to protect him. </p><p><a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/12/14/anne-conway-and-ireland/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2016/12/14</span><span class="invisible">/anne-conway-and-ireland/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophyOTD</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p>The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/the-almost-forgotten-story-of-katherine-jones-lady-ranelagh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencehistory.org/distillatio</span><span class="invisible">ns/podcast/the-almost-forgotten-story-of-katherine-jones-lady-ranelagh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophy</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> died on 3 December 1791 in Pall Mall, St. James&#39;s, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>London</span></a>. </p><p>A member of the Hartlib Circle, influential in her family and in intellectual circles, called &quot;the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years&quot; by Gilbert Burnet.<br /><a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ranelagh/</span></a></p><p>Bio: <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-katherine-a4330" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-ka</span><span class="invisible">therine-a4330</span></a><br />Image from <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo59259887.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b</span><span class="invisible">ook/chicago/L/bo59259887.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophyOTD</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p>Among the many notable people <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> hosted in London was the healer Valentine Greatrakes (already known to her brother Roger Boyle, as his neighbour). </p><p>Both she and her brother <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertBoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RobertBoyle</span></a> were interested in the debate around Greatrakes ability (which failed to relieve the suffering of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MaryConway" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaryConway</span></a>). A pamphlet on Greatrakes was dedicated to Robert Boyle, arguing the former&#39;s ability could be explained both naturally &amp; miraculously. (DiMeo, pp. 146-7)</p><p> Greatrakes died <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>otd</span></a> 1683.</p>
Irish Philosophy<p>Among the daughters of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GreatEarl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreatEarl</span></a> in that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@EngHistRev" class="u-url mention">@<span>EngHistRev</span></a></span> review <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceac164/6843116" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceac164/6843116</span></a><br />was <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a> , member of the Hartlib Circle, chemist &amp; thinker, &quot;the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years&quot; (according to Gilbert Burnet) </p><p><a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ranelagh/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophy</span></a></p>
Irish Philosophy<p>A post written for the 2015 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WorldPhilosophyDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldPhilosophyDay</span></a></p><p>The “Incomparable Lady Ranelagh” <br /><a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ranelagh/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IrishPhilosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LadyRanelagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LadyRanelagh</span></a></p>
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