- Robert Boyle - Wikipedia
Robert Boyle FRS [2] ( bɔɪl ; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method He is best known for Boyle's law, [4] which describes
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Boyle and Hooke discovered several physical characteristics of air, including its role in combustion, respiration, and the transmission of sound One of their findings, published in 1662, later became known as “ Boyle’s law ”
- Robert Boyle - Science History Institute
Every general-chemistry student learns of Robert Boyle (1627–1691) as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa—the famous Boyle’s law A leading scientist and intellectual of his day, he was a great proponent of the experimental method
- Robert Boyle - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Boyle was one of the leading intellectual figures of the seventeenth century and an important influence on Locke and Newton (Anstey 2018) He was an experimental philosopher, unwilling to construct abstract theories to which his experimental results had to conform
- Robert Boyle - World History Encyclopedia
Boyle formulated a principle which became known as "Boyle's Law " This law states that the pressure exerted by a certain quantity of air varies inversely in proportion to its volume (provided temperatures are constant)
- Robert Boyle | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
With the help of his colleague Robert Hooke (1635-1703), he designed and improved an air pump capable of creating and sustaining a vacuum and used it to perform many famous experiments, investigating things like respiration, disease, combustion, sound, and air pressure
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As a natural philosopher, Boyle is best remembered for Boyle's Law, for advocating a corpuscularian matter theory, and for being extremely influential in the development of an empirical and experimental method
- Robert Boyle and the Birth of Modern Chemistry | EBSCO
Though praised by physicists, Boyle saw himself above all as a chemist, and in his development of new techniques and control experiments, he had a great influence on the modern scientific research laboratory For his contemporaries, Boyle was the preeminent mechanical philosopher in England
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