~Sir+Robert+Boyle~~

document [] Name: Robert Boyle Date of birth and death: 1627-1691 Country of origin: Ireland Discoveries: 1662 Boyle's Law Boyle was born the seventh son and fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Richard Boyle had arrived in Ireland in 1588 as an entrepreneur, and had amassed enormous landholdings by the time Robert was born. While still a child, Robert learned to speak Latin, Greek, and French. He was seven years old when he was sent to Eton College in England. After spending over three years at Eton, Robert traveled abroad with a French tutor. After his father had died, he inherited land in Ireland and devoted his life to scientific research, and soon took a prominent place in the band of inquirers, known as the "Invisible College", who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the "new philosophy" and met frequently in London. He was part of the secret group, the "Chevaliers", who supported King Charles I during the English Civil Wars. Chemistry was Boyle's favorite subject. He is famous for his development of Boyle's Law that stated pressure and volume are inversely proportional at a fixed temperature. He investigated on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific gravities, on crystals, on electricity, on color, on hydrostatics. and on alchemy. He advanced towards the modern view of elements as the undecomposable constituents of material bodies; and understanding the distinction between mixtures and compounds, he made considerable progress in the technique of detecting their ingredients, a process which he designated by the term "analysis". He further supposed that the elements were ultimately composed of particles of various sorts and sizes into which they were not to be resolved in any known way.
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