pioneering experiments on the properties of gases, including those expressed in Boyle's law. He demonstrated the physical characteristics of air, showing that is is necessary in combustion, respiration, and sound transmission. He also wrote The Sceptical Chymist in 1661, in which he attacked Aristotle's theory of four elements. This was an essential part of the modern theory of chemical elements. Childhood Robert was born on January 25, 1627 to a Protestant family in Lismore, Ireland. He was the
Robert Boyle Introduction The English chemist, Robert Boyle, was the 14th child born to Richard Boyle, the First Earl of Cork, and Catherine. He was born in Lismore Castle, Ireland on January 25, 1627. When he was about a year old, his father sent him to live with an impoverished Irish family for a few years in an attempt to toughen and prepare Robert for life. This separation from his family resulted in Robert’s stutter. The following year, his mother died and he was allowed to return home.
The Renaissance began when people start researching back to their lost culture, Roman and Greek. Many people became influenced by the art and the due development of society. As there were studies and researchers all around, they started thinking of how things around them actually work and how nature growth. As art and new things started to develop, artists and inventors studied math to help them have better resolve on their work. And so many artists began to study many other things. As many people
Boyle in particular is regarded as the founding father of chemistry due to his most important work, the classic chemistry text The Sceptical Chymist where the differentiation is made between the claims of alchemy and the empirical scientific discoveries of the new chemistry.[34] He formulated Boyle 's law, rejected the classical "four elements" and proposed a mechanistic alternative of atoms
empiricism. Works Cited Grant, Edward. A History of Natural Philosohpy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 248. Print. Gullen, Micheal. Five Equations That Changed the World. New York: Hyperion, 1995. 23. Print. Boyle, Robert. The Sceptical Chymist. New York: Everyman’s Library, 1964. Print. Caspar, Max. Kepler. NewYork: Abelard-Schuman, 1959. 123-142