Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist (1661 ... It has been praised for opening the way to modern chemistry by sweeping away misguided alchemy and for providing the first modern definition of ...

From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle's early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging. A series of rodent experiments ...

Among Oldenburg’s frequent correspondents was the highly esteemed “noble philosopher” Robert Boyle. Although the Anglo-Irish scientist is best known for Boyle’s Law of gases, his first contribution to ...

Professor Duncan Thorburn Burns will present his acclaimed lecture on Robert Boyle. Robert Boyle was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings ...

Robert Boyle's character is often obscured by the ... But at the age of 22 he was “transported and bewitch'd” by experimental chemistry and never looked back. So began a life dedicated to ...

The chemist Robert Boyle made the "wish list" as he helped found the Royal Society, the world's first scientific body in 1660s London. The predictions, which also include submarines, genetically ...

ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691), the “Father of Chemistry”, was the most influential scientist born in Ireland. His impact on chemistry has been likened to that of Copernicus (1473-1543) on cosmology.

Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle's Pursuit of Gold Newton was not the only intellectual heavyweight from his era trying to make gold. The recipe for the Philosophers’ Stone had come from his older ...

Science historian Howard Markel discusses the word's origin, and the modern naming of the field of chemistry by British natural philosopher and alchemist Robert Boyle in his 1661 treatise ...

Robert Boyle FRS (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology. He is best known for ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Robert Boyle, a pioneering scientist and one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ...