Robert Boyle (1) (1627–1691)
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Born in Munster, Ireland, of English parents, Robert Boyle was among the earliest scientists who studied nature and drew conclusions justified by experiments. A son of a wealthy man, he received a good education. In 1654 he set up a laboratory in Oxford, England, and hired Robert Hooke (1634-1703) mostra altro as his laboratory assistant. Boyle and Hooke designed a greatly improved air pump, which enabled them to study the behavior of air by creating a sufficient vacuum. In 1660 Boyle published Spring and Weight of the Air in which he articulated Boyle's Law, describing the inverse relationship between the temperature and the pressure of a gas. In 1661 Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he challenged the alchemists' belief in the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. He also attacked the three principles of Paracelsus: salt, sulfur, and mercury. Boyle also studied the relationship between air and combustion and the respiration of animals, and reported his findings in Suspicions about Some Hidden Qualities of the Air (1674). However, the discovery of oxygen would wait for Joseph Priestley. Boyle experimented with the calcination of tin in a sealed container, but, because he weighed only the resultant tin oxide, he did not get sufficient data to interpret the results accurately. When the tin oxide weighed more than the original tin, he theorized that a substance had passed into the glass container. Lavoisier later repeated the experiment, weighed the container, and realized that something in the air had combined with the tin. With his discovery of Boyle's Law, Boyle became somewhat of a celebrity and enjoyed the favor of King Charles II. Boyle contributed to the founding of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge in 1662. Boyle died in London in 1691. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: The Shannon Portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle F. R. S. (1627-1691), by Johann Kerseboom [credit: Chemical Heritage Foundation]
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Opere di Robert Boyle
The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads ... (1738) 5 copie
New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made in a new pneumatical… (2011) 3 copie
Electricity & magnetism 1675 - 6 3 copie
Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy: vols. I & II 2 copie
Unpublished Material Relating to Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood (2005) 2 copie
Occasional Reflections Upon Several Subjects: With a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts (2012) 2 copie
The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six Volumes. To Which is Prefixed The Life of the Author. ... A new… (2018) 2 copie
Tracts consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea; an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses :… (2019) 2 copie
The theological works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; epitomiz'd. In three volumes. ... By Richard Boulton, ...… (2010) 1 copia
The theological works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; epitomiz'd. In three volumes. ... By Richard Boulton, ...… (2010) 1 copia
Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God: On Things Above Reason, and on the Style of the Holy… (2017) 1 copia
Some motives 1 copia
Robert Boyle ... opera varia ... 1 copia
Some motives and incentives to the love of God pathetically discours'd of in a letter to a friend 1 copia
Robert Boyle 1 copia
The general history of the air 1 copia
Works of Robert Boyle, Vol. VI (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) (1999) 1 copia
Collected Works 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings (1989) — Collaboratore — 148 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1627-01-25
- Data di morte
- 1691-12-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Churchyard of Saint Martin's in the Fields, Westminster, London, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
England - Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Eton College
tutors - Attività lavorative
- chemist
physicist
inventor
theologian
natural philosopher - Relazioni
- Orrery, Roger Boyle (brother)
Orrery, Earl of Charles Boyle (grandnephew) - Organizzazioni
- Royal Society
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow of the Royal Society
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- Opere
- 76
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 294
- Popolarità
- #79,674
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 80
- Lingue
- 5