Scientific Revolution: Boyle Vs. Isaac Newton

Although both Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton both were founders of the Scientific Revolution and modern Science Newton was better known for his work than Boyle in the general public. They both accomplished a lot but Newton’s work was better known and used by many. For more than a few reasons Newson’s work is better known in the public than that of Boyle.

Robert Boyle studied modern chemistry and investigated air pressure. He made two important contributions to science especially medicine and gravitation. He was noted for his work on behalf of experimentation. “Boyle’s experimental approach to chemistry helped to bring it into the realm of modern scholarship” (Bowles, Kaplan, 2012). “Alchemy, a mystical or mysterious element that was associated with chemistry, was almost the only chemical investigation done until Boyle’s days” (Sweeney, 2014).Deceptive allegations, bizarre beliefs and absolute deception made medieval science a disgraceful means of research. “By substituting quasi-scientific work with the experimental method, Boyle did a great service for future generations of chemical researchers” (Sweeney, 2014).He did not make any particular discoveries that persist

as part of modern chemistry. He came close to discovering oxygen. Boyle also did work on the nature of colors but were less influential than those of Newton who worked with the prism in experiments. His greatest improvement to prospective researchers came from the majority of realistic evidence he assembled in his life. He contributed a vital base for others to form on their own experimental achievements. He was concerned about medicine and cures for disease. His observations and documentations were used by other researchers. Boyle’s colleague, Hooke, created and assembled an air pump that he administered test on air pressure. “Boyle’s law explained the important phenomena of air and its effect that air volume always varies in inverse proportion to pressure and is widely recognized permanent contribution to the field of physicals “(Sweeney, 2014).
Isaac Newton was an English knowledgeable mathematician and expert in the field of mathematics who was to blame for revealing the essential precedents of global movement and the disposition of light. “He matured the numerical calculus, a mathematical procedure for calculating rate of change that had long evaded other scholars” (Hibbin, 2014).His second contribution was in the field of optics. He built a telescope with his experiments with light.
Newton researches led him to a mathematical proof that all motion is regulated by a law of attraction.

“He proved that the force of attraction between two bodies of constant mass varies as the inverse of the square of the distance between those bodies (that is, FA = k/D2, where FA is the force of attraction between the bodies, D is the distance between them, and k is a constant) “(Hibbin, 2014). “From this beginning, he was able to explain why planets travel in ellipses around the Sun, why Earth’s tides move as they do, and why tennis balls, for example, follow the trajectories that they do. The inverse square formula also led Newton toward a notion of gravity that neatly tied his mathematics together” (Hibbin,

2014).
Hibbin (2014) states that:
In the Principia Newton outlined his three laws of motion. The first law states that everybody continues in a state of rest or motion until it is acted on by a force (Hibbin, 2014). The second law states that the acceleration of a body is proportional to the force applied to it and inversely proportional to its mass (Hibbin, 2014). The third law, perhaps the most widely quoted, states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (Hibbin, 2014). From these three fundamental laws, Newton went on to construct his theory of gravity a force that acts at a distance between two or more bodies, causing an attraction between them that is in inverse proportion to the distance between them (Hibbin,2014).
In conclusion although Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton were both scientists who studied many works and experiments Newton was better known for his work. Newton’s work deemed him as one of the best English physicist and mathematician who was also widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. He was most famous for his law of gravitation.” He came to the conclusion that the apple and the moon were influenced by the same force. He named that force gravitation (or gravity) after the Latin word gravitas which literally translates into "heaviness" or "weight" (Hibbin, 2014). Newton is better known because of his three laws of motion. Although Boyle did a lot of experiments which helped him to discover the relationship between pressure and volume of gases and came up with “Boyle-Mariotte Law” his was still not as well-known as that of Newton. Newton and Boyle were both scientists of the Scientific Revolution who played a great part in the development of new knowledge and a lifetime of experiments. Although Sir Isaac Newton was influenced by the work of Dr. Robert Boyle he went on to experiment at a different level. Both men feared God and felt that there was a magical being that all logics were made. Almost all the people today still think of the world in Newtonian terms. Although Newton’s law is not quite understood by many it is known by a widespread of people. Many of his ideas were from other great scientists. Newton was even thought to have used some of Boyle’s work. Hook and Newton had many disagreements concerning the work in which he called his own. The two accomplished much within their lives. Boyle was the first modern chemist and a founder of the modern scientific method. Newton was referred to as the last of the magicians by J.M. They were both men who worked hard but because of Newton’s popularity he was known better today.