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@rmathematicus review of Michelle DiMeo's book "Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyleโ€™s Sister".

Not just an elder sister: wp.me/py7Pg-23G

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Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, member of the Hartlib Circle, was born on this day on 1615.

bio: dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-ka

: The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh sciencehistory.org/distillatio

: The Incomparable Lady Ranelagh irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19

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31 Dec: died in the early hours of 31st December 1691 (often given as 30th Dec).

Chemist (encouraged by his sister ), famous for Boyle's Law (volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure & vice versa).

A key figure in the development of the (), making experiment central and espousing a mechanistic theory of matter.

: plato.stanford.edu/entries/boy

bio: dib.ie/biography/boyle-robert-

Omg: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/F

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Anne Finch was born 1631. She was married to Edward Conway, later (in 1755) the 3rd Viscount Conway (English) and 3rd Viscount Killultagh (Irish).

was never in Ireland but she had Irish connections: she corresponded with philosophers and (and possibly ).

She also knew . Her husband brought Taylor to Portmore Co. Antrim in 1658, probably to protect him.

irishphilosophy.com/2016/12/14

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died on 3 December 1791 in Pall Mall, St. James's, .

A member of the Hartlib Circle, influential in her family and in intellectual circles, called "the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years" by Gilbert Burnet.
irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19

Bio: dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-ka
Image from press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

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

Both she and her brother were interested in the debate around Greatrakes ability (which failed to relieve the suffering of ). 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 1683.

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Among the daughters of the in that @EngHistRev review academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-a
was , 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)

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