Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher)

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Existence: 1627 - 1691

Biography

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), natural philosopher and chemist, was born at Lismore Castle, Munster, on 25 January 1627, the son of the 1st Earl of Cork. He was educated at Eton and by private tutors, and studied on the continent. Boyle settled at Oxford in 1654, where he erected a laboratory. He was responsible for 'Boyle's Law', which established the proportional relation between elasticity and pressure. He published many works between 1660 and his death on 31 December 1691.

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'English Books in Moscow - Leningrad Libraries: Newton, Boyle and Others' by P. J. Wallis, 1972-03

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/23/Wallis/20

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Offprint from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society The Library, Volume XXVII, Number 1.

Dates: Publication: 1972-03

Found in: Pembroke College Library / Pembroke College Archive / Pembrochiana / W / Peter John Wallis (m. 1936)

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