The Sceptical Chymist - Robert Boyle

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The Sceptical Chymist - Robert Boyle

Book Description: "Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is mainly known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry" (although he was an alchemist) and was one of the founding members of the Royal Society - which was the world's first international scientific organization. He was a notable figure in the history of "natural philosophy" (science) and, like many scientists at that time, was a Christian. His contributions to chemistry in particular were significant and marked an important transition point in the history of chemical research. Perhaps his main contribution was in making chemistry into a respectable and systematic part of natural philosophy by generating an experimental methodology for alchemists which emphasized evidence, repeatability, public verification and scrutiny of experimental results, quantification, and the use of pure materials to have more control over accuracy of interpretation (impurities often produced mixed and contradictory results which caused confusion more than clarity). Boyle is mostly known for verifying and discovering the proportional relationship of Pressure and Volume for gases by holding the Temperature constant, namely, he verified one side of the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT). If you are looking for the source on that particular discovery (how he derived PV = k), please see The Laws Of Gases: Memoirs By Robert Boyle And E. H. Amagat (1899).

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