Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher born in 1627 at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, the seventh son of the 1st Earl of Cork. He is regarded as the first modern chemist and as one of the pioneers of the experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inverse relationship between the absolute pressure and the volume of a gas held at constant temperature within a closed system. After reading in 1657 of Otto von Guericke's vacuum pump, he set about improving its construction with the help of Robert Hooke, and the resulting pneumatical engine was finished in 1659. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of London, was elected a Fellow in 1663, and died in 1691. The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry.
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Boyle was born at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, in the far south of Ireland
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25 January 1627-31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish chemist, alchemist, physicist, theologian, and inventor
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25 January 1627-31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish chemist, alchemist, physicist, theologian, and inventor
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he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1663
Early years
Boyle was born at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, in the far south of Ireland
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