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Robert Boyle
- Was a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist. Boyle was largely known for his works in physics and chemistry. He is best known for the creation of “Boyle’s law.” Boyle is recognized today as one of the first modern chemists and one of the founding fathers of chemistry. One of his works, “The Sceptical Chymist” is viewed as a legendary book in the field of chemistry.
==
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 has been variously described as Irish, English and
Anglo-Irish
, his father having come to Ireland from England during the time of the
Plantations
.
Although his research clearly has its roots in the
alchemical
tradition, 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
,
[1]
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
.
[2]
[3]
Among his works,
The Sceptical Chymist
is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry.
Biography
Early years
Boyle was born in
Lismore Castle
, in
County Waterford
,
Ireland
, the seventh son and fourteenth child of
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
and Catherine Fenton. Richard Boyle arrived in Dublin from England in 1588 during the
Tudor
plantations of Ireland
and obtained an appointment as a deputy
escheator
. He had amassed enormous landholdings by the time Robert was born. Catherine Fenton was the daughter of English writer
Geoffrey Fenton
, who was born in Dublin in 1539, and Alice Weston, the daughter of
Robert Weston
, who was born in
Lismore
in 1541.
[4]
As a child, Boyle was
fostered
to a local family
, as were his elder brothers. Consequently, the eldest of the Boyle children had sufficient Irish at four years of age to act as a translator for his father. Boyle received private tutoring in Latin, Greek and French and
when he was eight years old, following the death of his mother,
he was sent to
Eton College
in England. His father's friend, Sir
Henry Wotton
, was then the
provost
of the college.
During this time, his father hired a private tutor, Robert Carew, who had knowledge of Irish, to act as private tutor to his sons in Eton. However, "only Mr. Robert sometimes desires it [Irish] and is a little entered in it", but despite the "many reasons" given by Carew to turn their attentions to it, "they practice the French and Latin but they affect not the Irish".
[6]
After spending over three years at Eton, Robert travelled abroad with a French tutor. They visited
Italy
in 1641 and remained in
Florence
during the winter of that year studying the "paradoxes of the great star-gazer"
Galileo Galilei
, who was elderly but still living in 1641.
Middle years.
Boyle returned to England from
Continental Europe
in mid-1644 with a keen interest for scientific research.
[7]
His father had died the previous year and had left him the manor of
Stalbridge
in Dorset, England and substantial estates in
County Limerick
in Ireland that he had acquired. From that time, Robert devoted his life to
scientific
research and soon took a prominent place in the band of enquirers, known as the "
Invisible College
", who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the "new philosophy". They met frequently in London, often at
Gresham College
, and some of the members also had meetings at
Oxford
.
Having made several visits to his Irish estates beginning in 1647, Robert moved to Ireland in 1652 but became frustrated at his inability to make progress in his chemical work. In one letter, he described Ireland as "a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Hermetic thoughts in it."
[8]
In 1654, Boyle left Ireland for Oxford to pursue his work more successfully. An inscription can be found on the wall of
University College, Oxford
the
High Street
at
Oxford
(now the location of the
Shelley Memorial
), marking the spot where Cross Hall stood until the early 19th century. It was here that Boyle rented rooms from the wealthy apothecary who owned the Hall.
Reading in 1657 of
Otto von Guericke
's air-pump, he set himself with the assistance of
Robert Hooke
to devise improvements in its construction, and with the result, the "machina Boyleana" or "Pneumatical Engine", finished in 1659, he began a series of experiments on the properties of air.
[1]
An account of Boyle's work with the air pump was published in 1660 under the title
New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects
.
Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a
Jesuit
,
Francis Line
(1595–1675), and it was while answering his objections that Boyle made his first mention of
the law
that the volume of a gas varies inversely to the pressure of the gas, which among English-speaking people is usually called Boyle's Law after his name. The person that originally formulated the hypothesis was Henry Power in 1661. Boyle included a reference to a paper written by Power, but mistakenly attributed it to
Richard Towneley
. In continental Europe the hypothesis is sometimes attributed to
Edme Mariotte
, although he did not publish it until 1676 and was likely aware of Boyle's work at the time.
[9]
In 1663 the Invisible College became the
Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge
, and the charter of incorporation granted by
Charles II of England
, named Boyle a member of the council. In 1680 he was elected president of the society, but declined the honour from a scruple about oaths.
He made a "wish list" of 24 possible inventions which included "The Prolongation of Life", the "Art of Flying", "perpetual light", "making armour light and extremely hard", "A ship to saile with All Winds, and a Ship not to be sunk", "practicable and certain way of finding Longitudes", "potent druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory and other functions and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams etc". They are extraordinary because all but a few of the 24 have come true.
[10]
It was during his time at Oxford that Boyle was a
Chevalier
. The Chevaliers are thought to have been established by royal order a few years before Boyle's time at Oxford. The early part of Boyle's residence was marked by the actions of the victorious parliamentarian forces, consequently this period marked the most secretive period of Chevalier movements and thus little is known about Boyle's involvement beyond his membership.
In 1668 he left Oxford for London where he resided at the house of his sister,
Lady Ranelagh
, in
Pall Mall
.
==
روبيرت بويل (
1627
-
1691
) عالم
إيرلندي
يعد من أبرز الذين عملوا في مجال
الغازات
وخواصها، وهو الابن الرابع عشر لإيرل كورك الأول في
إيرلندا
وفي عام 1657 قام بتطوير
مضخة
هوائية وبدأ بدراسة العلاقة بين
الضغوط
والحجوم
للغازات المختلفة، ووضع بذلك قانوناُ يعرف الآن باسمه
قانون بويل
.
كما أنه يعد أول من قام بفصل
الميثانول
من بين المنتجات الناتجة عن التقطير الاتلافي للخشب وذلك عام 1661. وهو أول من وضع تعريف
للعنصر
، وقال بأنه مادة نقية بسيطة لا يمكن تحليلها إلى ما هو أبسط منها بالطرق الكيميائية المعروفة
يتيم الام في سن الثامنة وتمت تربيته عند عائلة بديلة.
يتيم الام في سن الثامنة
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