Robert Boyle
is considered both the founder of modern chemistry 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 the Continent,
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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, and 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 accept this theory, whether it
referred to the earth, air, fire, and ...
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