Biography of robert boyle chemist

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 , [ 4 ] 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.

He was a devout and pious Anglican and is noted for his works in theology. He had amassed enormous wealth and landholdings by the time Robert was born and had been made Earl of Cork in October As a child, Boyle was raised by a wet nurse , [ 10 ] as were his elder brothers.

Robert boyle contribution to chemistry

Boyle received private tutoring in Latin, Greek, and French and when he was eight years old, following the death of his mother, he, and his brother Francis, were 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 draw their attention to it, "they practise the French and Latin but they affect not the Irish". They visited Italy in and remained in Florence during the winter of that year studying the "paradoxes of the great star-gazer", the elderly Galileo Galilei.