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__Roger Bacon 1242__ Roger Bacon was born in England in the year 1214, and he died 1244. At the age of thirteen, he attended Oxford University where he spent eight years learning there and received a baccalaureate in arts. In 1257, Bacon was tacken from England to France. It is believed that he was imprisoned in a French Monastery. Bacon was ahead of his time, mainly because of his ideas like his drawings of self driven boats, even flying machines. Before he was taken away in 1257, in 1252 he became a Francisian which he was required to take a vow of poverty. This photo from [] Bacon was an important figure in the creation of the experimental method, which really emphasized on observations, and also the experiments. Bacon described the process of making gunpowder in 1242. Bacon had also made his own concepts of matter.

__Robert Boyle 1662__ Robert Boyle was born on January 25, 1627 in Waterford Ireland, he later died December 30, 1691. Boyle was the seventh son and fourteenth child. He was born into one of the wealthiest families in Britan. When he was only eight years old he began his education at Eton College. Boyle learned how to speak many languages including Latin, Greek, and French. During his time period there was a civil war, between King Charles and Parliament. Also, he was a member of what some called the Invisible College, this group focused on creating new philosophies. Later on, this became later known as the Royal Society in 1963. This photo from [] Boyle invented a pump which helped him create Boyles law. This law created in 1662, describes the relationship pressure and the volume of gas. Basically the law states that as the pressure increases the volume decreases. Boyle's law is on theoretical gas, it can be used to calculate the volume and the pressure of an internal combustion engines and also steam engines. His experiments showed compressibility of gasses on atoms.

__Hennig Brand 1669__

Hennig Brand was born in Hamburg Germany in 1630 and he died in 1710. During the Thirty Year War, he was a military officer. It is believed that during his early year she was an apprentice glass maker. He searched for what people would call the philosophers stone. The stone was believed to transform base medals like lead into gold. During this search he spent all of his wife's money. When he was done spending her money, he moved on to the next wife Margaretha who was a wealthy widow. This photo from [] During his search for the philosophers stone he discovered phosphorous. He did this by allowing urine to sit until it was purified, then he boiled the liquid into a paste. This urine was heated to a high temperature and then it was put with water. The result wasn't gold but a waxy white substance that glowed in the dark. This was phosphorous, one of the first elements to be separated into itself.