Download or read book Robert Boyle Founder of Modern Chemistry written by Harry Sootin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the great English chemist "often regarded as the 'founder of modern chemistry' because he was a firm believer in the experiment rather than theory ... Boyle's best-known achievement is the Law that bears his name today--'Boyles's Law, ' which states that relation between the pressure and volume of gases." Publisher's note.
Download or read book The Sceptical Chymist written by Robert Boyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle: Considered a cornerstone of modern chemistry, The Sceptical Chymist challenges prevailing alchemical beliefs and lays the foundation for the scientific method. Written by the esteemed chemist Robert Boyle, the book explores the nature of matter and the importance of rigorous experimentation and observation. It inspires readers to question established paradigms and embrace empirical evidence, revolutionizing the way science is conducted. Key Aspects of the Book “The Sceptical Chymist”: Explore the pivotal shift from alchemy to modern chemistry. Understand the significance of empirical evidence in scientific inquiry. Learn from the pioneering insights of Robert Boyle that shaped the scientific method. Robert Boyle: Robert Boyle, an Irish natural philosopher and chemist, is considered one of the pioneers of modern experimental science. Born in 1627, Boyle's contributions to physics and chemistry, particularly his experiments on the properties of gases, laid the foundation for the development of the scientific method. His work, including The Sceptical Chymist, challenged prevailing theories and paved the way for a more empirical approach to scientific inquiry. Boyle's dedication to rigorous experimentation and his commitment to the pursuit of knowledge have had a lasting impact on the scientific community, influencing generations of scientists and advancing our understanding of the natural world.
Download or read book Skeptical Chemist written by Roberta Baxter and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle, the favorite son of the wealthiest man in England and Ireland, could have lived a life of luxury. Instead he committed himself to advancing scientific knowledge and to helping lay the foundation of modern chemistry. Boyle used his wealth to help found the Royal Society, the first state chartered scientific organization, and to build an elaborate laboratory in which he performed dozens of experiments in chemistry and physics. Robert Boyle lived during an exciting time of revolution and scientific advancement, and his life and work are vividly portrayed for a new generation of young readers in Skeptical Chemist: The Story of Robert Boyle. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle written by Robert Boyle and published by Thoemmes Press. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 5150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'almost every branch of modern science can trace phases of its origin in his writings ... in the broad field of science Boyle made a greater number and variety of discoveries than one man is ever likely to make again' - John Fulton, Boyle's bibliographer Robert Boyle (1627-91) was one of the most influential scientists and philosophers of the seventeenth century. The founder of modern chemistry, he headed the movement that turned it from an occult science into a subject well-grounded in experiment, sound methodology and observation. His pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his mechanistic theory of matter are the forerunners of the modern theories of chemical elements and atomic theory. He is best known for founding the renowned Boyle Lectures and for Boyle's Law that states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional. A founding fellow of the Royal Society, three consecutive kings of England conversed familiarly with him. Philosophically, he wrote with sophistication on atheism, atomism, epistemology, miracles and natural laws. He influenced Berkeley, Spinoza, Henry More and especially John Locke, who relied on Boyle's theory of primary and secondary qualities in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Boyle's circle of correspondents included Newton, Locke, Aubrey, Oldenburg and Hartlib, and his influence on both British and European scholars was enormous. He also took a lead part in examining the relation of science to theology. This is the standard edition of Boyle's works and the only complete collection currently available. First published in 1772, it brings together his many and varied writings in one comprehensive, fully-indexed source. Covering his work in chemistry, philosophy and theology, it includes a Life of Boyle by Thomas Birch. The Thoemmes reprint of the second and best English edition features a new introduction by Peter Alexander, one of the world authorities on Boyle. --includes a Life of Boyle by Thomas Birch --features letters to and from Boyle --this rare edition is the only complete collected edition currently available and the standard text to which literature on Boyle refers --engraved frontispieces and several fold-out illustrations
Download or read book The Sceptical Chymist written by Robert Boyle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
Download or read book Robert Boyle Founder of Modern Chemistry written by Harry Sootin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aspiring Adept written by Lawrence Principe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science because of his mechanical philosophy and his experimentation with the air-pump and other early scientific apparatus. However, Lawrence Principe shows that his alchemical quest--hidden first by Boyle's own codes and secrecy, and later suppressed or ignored--positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century. Principe radically reinterprets Boyle's most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist, to show that it criticizes not alchemists, as has been thought, but "unphilosophical" pharmacists and textbook writers. He then shows Boyle's unambiguous enthusiasm for alchemy in his "lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals, now reconstructed from scattered fragments and presented here in full for the first time. Intriguingly, Boyle believed that the goal of his quest, the Philosopher's Stone, could not only transmute base metals into gold, but could also attract angels. Alchemy could thus act both as a source of knowledge and as a defense against the growing tide of atheism that tormented him. In seeking to integrate the seemingly contradictory facets of Boyle's work, Principe also illuminates how alchemy and other "unscientific" pursuits had a far greater impact on early modern science than has previously been thought.
Download or read book Robert Boyle Founder of Modern Chemistry Illustrated by Gustav Schrotter written by Harry Sootin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science written by John Hudson Tiner and published by Mott Media (MI). This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the seventeenth-century Anglo-Irish scientist who, among his other accomplishments, is considered to be the founder of modern chemistry.
Download or read book Robert Boyle and Seventeenth century Chemistry written by Marie Boas and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1958 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Boyle written by Reijer Hooykaas and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive study of the thought of Robert Boyle in the context of his time. Boyle was a pioneer of experimental physics and founder of modern chemistry. Hooykaas provides a historical study of the relations between science and Christian faith in Boyle focusing on his views of religion, revelation, reason and experience. Boyle's conception of science is compared with those of Descartes, Gassendi, Newton, Bacon and Pascal. It is a close textual study of the collected works of Boyle using the edition of 1772. It corrects criticism that Hooykaas abused history of science to engage in Christian apologetics. It is intended for historians of science, philosophers of science, students of religion and science relations, Boyle scholars, and historians of chemistry. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Chapter I: Boyle's Life and Times; Chapter II: Science; Chapter III: Religion and the Study of Nature; Chapter IV: Special Revelation; Index of Names. Co-published with The Pascal Center for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science.
Download or read book The Sceptical Chymist written by Robert Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle was the seventh son of Richard Boyle, the greatest landlord in Ireland in the early 17th century, known as the "Great Earl of Cork." The younger Boyle was an important natural philosopher, a founder and influential fellow of Britain's Royal Society who made important contributions in both physics and chemistry. (View a portrait of Boyle at the National Portrait Gallery, London.) He is probably best known today for "Boyle's law," [Boyle 1662] which relates the pressure and volume of gases. (View some of his apparatus for investigating gases at Stanford University.) His earliest publication was on the physical properties of air; he also wrote detailed accounts of chemical experiments, including several on combustion [Boyle 1672].The Sceptical Chymist is an extensive dialogue concerning the nature and number of the elements. Boyle argues that those who believe the elements to be earth, air, fire, and water (following Aristotle and the ancients) or mercury, sulfur, and salt (following more recent alchemical doctrine) do so on an insufficient basis. The cast of characters includes Carneades (representing Boyle's opinions), Themistius (representing the four-element system of the ancients), Philoponus (representing the three-principle system of the alchemists), and Eleutherius (an interested observer).
Download or read book Robert Boyle and Seventeenth Century Chemistry written by Marie Boas Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Experiments Physico mechanical Touching the Air written by Robert Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alchemy Tried in the Fire written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Newman and Lawrence Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory experiments of a famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy.
Download or read book Boyle written by Michael Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. This biography of Boyle navigates Boyle's voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers.
Download or read book Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science written by John Hudson Tiner and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quickly turn to the inside front cover to read more of one of your favorite Christian heroes. You'll be amazed at what has been left out of our history books! This story is about Robert Boyle-Science.
