Robert Boyle Research Paper

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Robert Boyle was born in 1627, he was the seventh son of his father Richard Boyle. Boyle was named the father of of chemistry after he created a vacuum pump and found Boyle’s law, became a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and an inventor. He gave the first accurate definition of a chemical element, chemical reaction, and a chemical analysis. In 1641, Boyle went to Florence with his tutor who was French, he spent his winter studying with Galileo Galilei. He was also part of the “Invisible College” which was a group of men that met and discussed science and philosophy. Boyle was one of many pretty big founders of Chemistry. Boyle’s law describes the proportional relationships between the definite pressure and volume of gas. Boyle presented

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