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Robert Boyle

Also known as Sir Robert Boyle, Hon. Robert Boyle, The Hon. Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

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Robert Boyle was an English physicist, chemist, philosopher, and naturalist born in 1627 at Lismore Castle in Lismore. He was educated at Eton College and resided in County Waterford and England. Boyle was a member of the Royal Society and the Invisible College, and he was recognized in the Royal Society collection. He worked at the University of Oxford and was influenced by Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Cornelis Drebbel.

He was the son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and had siblings including Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, and Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh. Boyle’s field of work included physics, chemistry, and philosophy. His notable works include *Some motives and incentives to the love of God*, *A discourse concerning pulick oaths*, and *An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion*. He died in London on December 31, 1691.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1627
Died: 1691
Works: 379

Top works

Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus
Some motives and incentives to the love of God
The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy) illustrated by considerations and experimemts[!]
Paradoxa hydrostatica novis experimentis (maximam partem physicis ac facilibus) evicta, et Regiae Britanniarvm societati exhibita
A discourse concerning pulick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1948-12-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 18
Total plays: 211

There are multiple artists named Robert Boyle: 1) An experimental / electronic musician currently in Seattle, Washington. He states his primary inspiration is a cemetery he lived near in rural Louisiana as a child. He was supposedly attacked by a man with an axe in his parents' basement, and this is his way of coping with this stress. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Boyle">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,762x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,528x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,809x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,769x
The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,465x

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Quotes

“I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.”
“Those hypotheses do not a little hinder the progress of Humane knowledge, that introduce Morals and Politicks into the Explications of Corporeal Nature, where all things are indeed transacted according to Laws Mechanical.”
“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.”
“For it very rarely otherwise happens, than that theories, that are grounded but upon few and obvious experiments, are subject to be contradicted by some such instances, as more free and diligent inquiries into what of nature is more abstruse, or even into the less obvious qualities of things, are wont to bring to light.”
“For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.”
“A Person any Thing vers’d in the Writings of Chymists cannot but Discern by their obscure, Ambiguous, and almost Ænigmatical Way of expressing what they pretend to Teach, that they have no Mind, to be understood at all, but by the Sons of Art (as they call them) nor to be Understood even by these without Difficulty And Hazardous Tryalls.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Robert
Family name: Boyle
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of England
Place of birth: Lismore Castle
Place of death: London
Father: Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Occupation: philosopher
Educated at: Eton College
Employer: University of Oxford
Languages spoken: Irish
Religion: Anglicanism
Award: Fellow of the Royal Society
Notable work: The Sceptical Chymist
Doctoral student: Robert Hooke
Field of work: philosophy
Image: Robert Boyle portrait shifted.jpg
Residence: England

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member of: Invisible College
Commons category: Robert Boyle
date of birth: 1626-01-25
date of death: 1691-12-31
topic's main category: Category:Robert Boyle
influenced by: Ibn Tufayl
name in native language: Robert Boyle
place of burial: St Martin-in-the-Fields
writing language: English language
honorific prefix: The Honourable
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
different from: Robert F. Boyle
student: Robert Hooke
P8168: Valerian Vasilyev

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Boyle (/bɔɪl/; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. 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.

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