Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the principal editor of Boyle’s ‘Works’ (with Edward B. Davis, 14 volumes, 1999-2000),‘Correspondence’ (with Antonio Clerucuzio and Lawrence M. Principe, 6 vols., 2001) and ‘The Work-Diaries …’ (with Charles Littleton). He is also the author of ‘Boyle: Between God and Science‘ (2009), which won both the Samuel Pepys Award and the Roy G. Neville Prize in 2011, and of ‘Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle‘ (2015).
Other works deal with various aspects of 17th and early 18th century intellectual history; including the early Royal Society and its milieu. His latest book, ‘The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment’, was published by Yale University Press in 2020, and his ‘Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience’ will shortly be published by Cambridge University Press.