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Chemistry

Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern and the greatest
English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society.
He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also
an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in
Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second

wife, Boyle was the youngest son in a family of fourteen. However he was not

shortchanged of anything. After private tutoring at home for eight years, Robert Boyle

was sent to Eton College where he studied for four years. At the age of twelve, Boyle

traveled to ...

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of drugs, but soon he became genuinely

interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to

Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis. Together in

1660, they founded the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science.

From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of science.

For centuries scientists had been explaining the unknown with the simple explanation that

God made it that way. Though Boyle did not argue with this, he did believe that there was

a scientific explanation for God’s doings. Boyle’s point of view can be seen by his dealings

with the elements. At this time it was thought that an element was not only the simplest

body to which something could be broken down, but also a necessary component of all

bodies. Meaning that if oil was an element, it would not be able to be broken down, and it

would be found in everything. Boyle did not ...

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