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- Boyle was an Irish chemist who made a significant contribution away from the alchemical idea of Aristotle’s four elements to the atomic model of elements. He argued elements consisted of ‘corpuscles’ (atoms) instead of the four traditional elements of earth, air, fire, and water.
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Boyle's definition of an element was based on the observation that many substances can be decomposed into simpler substances. Water, for example, decomposes into a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen when an electric current is passed through the liquid.
Dec 11, 2023 · Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is known as “The Father of Chemistry” for his discovery that atoms must exist based on the relationship between pressure and volume of gas. His theorem called Boyle’s Law reasons that because a fixed mass of gas can be compressed, gas must be made of particles, or atoms, because there is space between them.
Robert Boyle FRS (/ b ɔɪ l /; 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 .
Robert Boyle (born January 25, 1627, Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland—died December 31, 1691, London, England) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and theological writer, a preeminent figure of 17th-century intellectual culture.
Jun 30, 2005 · Influential versions of Greek atomism were formulated by a range of philosophers in the seventeenth century, notably Pierre Gassendi (Clericuzio, 2000, 63–74) and Robert Boyle (Stewart, 1979 and Newman 2006).
Robert Boyle (1627—1691) Robert Boyle was one of the most prolific figures in the scientific revolution and the leading scientist of his day. He was a proponent of the mechanical philosophy which sought to explain natural phenomena in terms of matter and motion, rather than appealing to Aristotelian substantial forms and qualities.
Jan 15, 2002 · Boyle was a corpuscularian, a term he employed to paper over the differences between believers in a vacuum, and believers in a plenum, given that both of them agreed that the explanation of natural occurrences should be solely in terms of particles of matter, their motion and interaction.
