Robert Boyle
Robert William Boyle FRS (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. A devout and pious Anglican, he is also noted for his writings in theology.…more
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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2011
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Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
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2000
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Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature & the Social Order
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1996
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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life and Tumultuous Times of Sir Christopher Wren
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2002
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Robert Boyle: Trailblazer of Science
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Boyle: Between God and Science
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2009
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Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry
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2014
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