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Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691)
Engraved portrait of Robert Boyle ©Boyle was a leading intellectual figure of the 17th century and one of the founders of modern chemistry.
Robert Boyle was born on 27 January 1627 in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland.
He was the seventh son of the earl of Cork. He was educated at Eton and then travelled and studied in Europe. He returned from the continent in 1644 extremely interested in science and settled in Dorset where he built a laboratory.
Robert boyle biography chemistry
In 1655 or 1666, Boyle moved to Oxford. It was here that he engaged Robert Hooke as an assistant and together they devised the most famous piece of experimental equipment associated with Boyle, the vacuum chamber or air-pump.
At this time even the idea of an experiment was controversial.
The established method of 'discovering' something was to argue it out, using the established logical rules Aristotle and others had worked out 2,000 years before. Boyle was more interested in observing natur