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Essay Archive - Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
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, Boyle was the youngest son in a
family of fourteen. However he was not shortchanged of anything. After private
tutoring at home for eight years, Robert Boyle was sent t....
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