Robert Boyle

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An overview of Robert Boyle, the eminent scientist who was born in Lismore Castle, County Waterford on January 25th 1627. Read more at: http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/en/localstudies/waterfordscientists/robertboyle1627-1691/

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Robert Boyle Robert Boyle

1627- 16911627- 1691

Donald BradyDonald Brady1313 thth November 2008 November 2008

Robert Boyle

“If the temperature remains constant the volume of a given gas is inverse ly proportional to the absolute pressure”

Waterf ord Waterf ord

Scient ist sScient ist s

Ernest Walton

John Pal l iser

Margaret Aylward Thomas Grubb

Birth andFamily

Mary Boyle

“A sport he ever pass ionately loved”

EnglandEngland

LondonLondon StalbridStalbrid

gege

Stalbridge House Dorset

EnglandEngland

OxfordOxford LondoLondo

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Pall Mall

I re land

Lismore Cast le

“A barbarous country”

Sir Will iam Petty

Death &Burial

TheWorks

Boyle’s Air Pump

The Royal Socie t y The Royal Socie t y

e

Robert Hooke

“The oldest sc ientif icOrganisat ion in theWorld”

Cont emporary Views

“The boundaries that Boyle proposed to erect and maintain were guarantees of continued disorder”

Thomas Hobbes

Boyle Lectures Boyle LecturesA series of lectures intended to defend the Christian Religion”

The Boyle The Boyle

MedalMedal

“A medal for scientific research of exceptional merit carr ied out in Ire land ”

ConclusionConclusion

Assessment

Robert Boyle by John Col l Lismore Library“A sententious little prig?”