Boyle
[bɔil]
Definition
(noun.) Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691).
(noun.) United States writer (1902-1992).
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Examples
- One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Boyle, Otto Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, celebrated as the inventor of the airpump, Dr. Wall, and Sir Isaac Newton, added some facts. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In fact, Boyle had sustained the hypothesis that supposes the pressures and expansions to be in reciprocal proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Boyle with characteristic caution was not inclined to draw too general a conclusion from his experiment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Robert Boyle, about it, who announced it with interest to the Royal Society, and again it finds mention in the _Philosophical Transactions_ fifty years later. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is not difficult to see in Franklin th e same spirit that had animated Hartlib, Boyle, Petty,[2] Wilkins, and their fr iends one hundred years before. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In this same year Robert Boyle, then an eager student of eighteen just returned to England from residence a broad, came under the influence of the genial Hartlib. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The substance of some lectures in defense of Christianity, in courses endowed by the will of Robert Boyle, made Franklin a Deist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This was the Ireland of Swift, Goldsmith, Burke, Berkeley, and Boyle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of the sermons which had been preached at Boyle's Lectures. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At the sa me time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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