Chemistry
Title: Chemistry
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 925 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Chemistry
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 925 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern chemistry and the greatest
English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society.
He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also
an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in
Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second
wife,
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He wrote numerous books on religious
subjects, not all of which were related to science, but the most influential being so. At his
death in the December of 1691, Boyle left a sum of money for the foundation of the Boyle
lectures, a group of sermons that were intended for the disputation of atheism. Robert
Boyle opened the way for future scientists, changing their methods of experimentation,
thought, and outlook on chemistry as a whole, forever.