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Robert Boyle
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Among Latin writers, the acceptations of the word nature are so many, that I remember, one author reckons up no less than fourteen or fifteen.
— Sect. 1
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
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Lived 1627–1691, aged 64
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He turned chemistry from mystical art into measurable science — the man who proved air has weight and that gases follow rules you can write down.
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Born in 1627 to Anglo-Irish wealth, Boyle came of age when alchemy still ruled the bench. He brought the experimental method to chemistry: isolating variables, repeating trials, trusting only what the apparatus showed. In 1662 he formalized the law that bears his name — pressure and volume of a gas move in inverse proportion at constant temperature — a relationship you could predict and test. His book "The Sceptical Chymist" dismantled the old elemental dogmas and laid groundwork for the field as we know it. A devout Anglican, he wrote theology alongside his science, died in 1691, and left che…
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Robert Boyle
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And of universal nature, the notion I would offer, should be something like this.
— Sect. 2.
Robert Boyle
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And first the Doctrine that all their Theory is grounded on, seems to me Inevident and undemonstrated, not to say precarious.
— A source.
Robert Boyle
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I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.
— "Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures" (1661) "Seventh Objection", as quoted in Treatises on the High Veneration
Robert Boyle
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For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.
— , wherein, with some Considerations touching Experimental Essays in general, Is interwoven such an Introduction to all those written by the
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