Who was known as the father of modern chemist? Well if you know it is Robert Boyle. You may know him by Boyle's law
that are known as gas laws. He made studies of the calaination of metals, combustion, acid and bases, the nature of colors and
the propagation of sound. The atomic therory was an natural philosopher. He is a scientist we won't hopefully forget.
Robert Boyle was born in the year of 1627. He was born at Lismore Castle in January 25, 1627. Lismore Castle is now
located at the republican of Ireland. He is the youngest of fourteen childen of the wealthiest man in British Isles. His father is
Richard Boyle, an adventure who made his fortune in ireland and who, as Lord High Treasure of that country. He was one of the
riches and most influential men in Britian. In age twelve his father send him and one of brother on a European tour. From Dieppe
they travelled to Paris then to Lyon before reaching Geneva. In Geneva Boyle studied with a private tutor. He know how to speak
french, and latin. He learned by his tutor rhetoric and also religon. Galilea work influence Boyle more toward science. Robert Boyle
had a career as a writer, but contary to what might be expected from his later publication, his efforts weren't intinially devoted to
science. He was a member of an aristogratic and wealthy family. He spended four years at Eton college and from 1638 he studied
at Geneva returning to London in 1644.
Boyle had many famous experiment while back. He also had help with other scientist. In 1649-1650 Boyle set up a
laboratory at his house in Stal Bridge. Boyle studied the relationship between the pressure (p) and the volume (v) of a confined gas
held at a constant temperature. Boyle observed that the product of the pressure and volume are obsereved to be nearly constant.
The product of pressure and volume is exactly a constant for an ideal gas. One of his famous experiment, he took a U-shape tube
with shorter closed end and a longer open end into which he poured mecury thus isloating a given volume of air in the shorten end.
When mecury was level both limbs the air was underatomsphere pressure and by adding more mecury to the longer limb the
pressure was double. Boyle was assisted by Robert Hooke in various pioneering experiments in which he showed that air was
essential for transmions of sound. The last two process exhausted only part of the air. Boyle achived wide fame in the early 1600's
though a series of experimental treaties is which he investigated the charateristics of air "corpus culariaism." His first project was his
Aretology, a somewhat stilled treatise on a Ethical Elements' intended to lay down the rudiments of morality as a basic for the
pursuit of virtue. He worked on the compressibility of air was publish in new experiments Physicomechanical touching the spring of
the air and its effects put the famous law stating that the pressure and volume of air are inversely proportional wasn't stated explicity
until the second edition. He develope a mechanical corpuslar philosopher of his own derived from the greek tradition and the work
of Galileo and Pierre Gassendi.
In 1668 Boyle left Oxford for London where his scholarly nature and poor health. He was very much at the center of
scientific life as a founder member of the society. Robert Boyle nevered married and when he turn fourty-three he when to live with
his sister Katherine Lady Ranelagh. He was a shy man with deep religious convictions. Robert Boyle died in London on December
30, 1691. He was buried in the Church of Saint-Martin-in-the-fields next to his sister. Later the church was demdished and no record
was made as to where his remains were moved.
Boyle's writing was very clear. His style clear and straight forward. Mostly every work or experiment he would write it down
and publish his work so in order to let the people know more how things are connected as which all scientist do. He could of been
a career in writing.
So how did Boyle got influence to studying the air? How did he started off? What made him thing about the ways of gas?
How did Robert Boyle starts making questions and also think about his theory? Did and other scientists had help him on him
experiments? Why didn't he married? Where is he now located? His experiments and studies of the work and liberal knowledge
affect the world today and will be not forgotten. He has shown and done to show about gas laws. He is highly known as the
vocabulary of law of Boyle's law. This couldn't be worst because then we won't create any other machines with out knowing Boyle's
law. For instant Boyle's law is mainly about gas laws. We couldn't have made air conditions so that we can stay warm or cool. So
with out Boyle's work we wouldn't live in a world like it is now. Imagine a world with out gas machines. It would be very different to
find things throught and also keeping warm.
Why did I choose Robert Boyle as my reseach paper? I choose him because I wanted to know how gas can be
converted and who studied about this. Boyle I know is a man who is good in writing state and scienctist stage. I was also into the
air and atmosphere and how it got or how contain or air is in a container and the pressure that is also involde with this. He is a
wonderful scientist. He is a chemail achievers. Not all the work of Boyle writing were published.
Who is the mighty chemist? He is one scientist that studied the laws of gas. Robert Boyle is a great scientist and I
choose him because the laws of gas by Robert Boyle called Boyle's law had influence me to choosen this scientist.
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