Robert Boyle (1) (1627–1691)
Auteur de The Sceptical Chymist
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A propos de l'auteur
Born in Munster, Ireland, of English parents, Robert Boyle was among the earliest scientists who studied nature and drew conclusions justified by experiments. A son of a wealthy man, he received a good education. In 1654 he set up a laboratory in Oxford, England, and hired Robert Hooke (1634-1703) afficher plus as his laboratory assistant. Boyle and Hooke designed a greatly improved air pump, which enabled them to study the behavior of air by creating a sufficient vacuum. In 1660 Boyle published Spring and Weight of the Air in which he articulated Boyle's Law, describing the inverse relationship between the temperature and the pressure of a gas. In 1661 Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he challenged the alchemists' belief in the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. He also attacked the three principles of Paracelsus: salt, sulfur, and mercury. Boyle also studied the relationship between air and combustion and the respiration of animals, and reported his findings in Suspicions about Some Hidden Qualities of the Air (1674). However, the discovery of oxygen would wait for Joseph Priestley. Boyle experimented with the calcination of tin in a sealed container, but, because he weighed only the resultant tin oxide, he did not get sufficient data to interpret the results accurately. When the tin oxide weighed more than the original tin, he theorized that a substance had passed into the glass container. Lavoisier later repeated the experiment, weighed the container, and realized that something in the air had combined with the tin. With his discovery of Boyle's Law, Boyle became somewhat of a celebrity and enjoyed the favor of King Charles II. Boyle contributed to the founding of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge in 1662. Boyle died in London in 1691. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: The Shannon Portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle F. R. S. (1627-1691), by Johann Kerseboom [credit: Chemical Heritage Foundation]
Séries
Œuvres de Robert Boyle
The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads ... (1738) 5 exemplaires
Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures. : Extracted from several parts of a discourse (concerning… 4 exemplaires
Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy: vol. I 3 exemplaires
An essay about the origine and virtue of gems. 3 exemplaires
New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made in a new pneumatical… (2011) 3 exemplaires
Electricity & magnetism 1675 - 6 3 exemplaires
Hydrostatical Paradoxes, made out by New Experiments 2 exemplaires
Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy: vols. I & II 2 exemplaires
Unpublished Material Relating to Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood (2005) 2 exemplaires
Occasional Reflections Upon Several Subjects: With a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts (2012) 2 exemplaires
The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six Volumes. To Which is Prefixed The Life of the Author. ... A new… (2018) 2 exemplaires
The Christian virtuoso : shewing, that by being addicted to experimental philosophy, a man is rather assisted, than… 2 exemplaires
Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: : among which is… 2 exemplaires
Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. : To which is annexed a discourse about… 2 exemplaires
Tracts consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea; an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses :… (2019) 2 exemplaires
The theological works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; epitomiz'd. In three volumes. ... By Richard Boulton, ...… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Tracts Written by the Honourable Robert Boyle Of A Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of the Air [&c.] 1 exemplaire
The theological works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; epitomiz'd. In three volumes. ... By Richard Boulton, ...… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God: On Things Above Reason, and on the Style of the Holy… (2017) 1 exemplaire
Some motives 1 exemplaire
A Defence of natural and revealed religion: being a collection of the sermons preached at the lecture founded by the… 1 exemplaire
Everyman's Library. Science; The Sceptical Chymist 1 exemplaire
Defensio Doctrinæ De Elatere & Gravitate Aëris 1 exemplaire
Robert Boyle ... opera varia ... 1 exemplaire
Some motives and incentives to the love of God pathetically discours'd of in a letter to a friend 1 exemplaire
New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold, begun : To which are added an… 1 exemplaire
Experimentorum novorum physico-mechanicorum continuatio secunda, in qua experimenta varia tum in aere compresso, ... 1 exemplaire
An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion whereunto is annexed, An experimental discourse ... 1 exemplaire
Chymista scepticus, vel dubia et paradoxa chymicophysica, circa Spagyricorum principia ... Cui pars præmittitur… 1 exemplaire
Medicinal experiments; or, A collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple, and easily prepar'd 1 exemplaire
Robert Boyle 1 exemplaire
The general history of the air 1 exemplaire
Works of Robert Boyle, Vol. VI (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) (1999) 1 exemplaire
Reflections upon a theological distinction ... 1 exemplaire
The martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus 1 exemplaire
Tractatus de qualitatibus rerum cosmicis Suspicionibus cosmicis. Temperie regionum sub-marinarum. Temperie regionum… 1 exemplaire
New Experiments Concerning the Relation between Light and Air (in Shining Wood and Fish) 1 exemplaire
Works of Robert Boyle, Vol. III (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) 1 exemplaire
Works of Robert Boyle, Vol. II (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) 1 exemplaire
Works of Robert Boyle Vol. I (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) 1 exemplaire
Works of Robert Boyle, Vol. V (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) 1 exemplaire
Specimen de gemmarum origine & virtutibus ... 1 exemplaire
Collected Works 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings (1989) — Contributeur — 149 exemplaires
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners (2002) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1627-01-25
- Date de décès
- 1691-12-30
- Lieu de sépulture
- Churchyard of Saint Martin's in the Fields, Westminster, London, England
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
England - Pays (pour la carte)
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Études
- Eton College
tutors - Professions
- chemist
physicist
inventor
theologian
natural philosopher - Relations
- Orrery, Roger Boyle (brother)
Orrery, Earl of Charles Boyle (grandnephew) - Organisations
- Royal Society
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the Royal Society
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 76
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 296
- Popularité
- #79,168
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 80
- Langues
- 5