Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

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    Robert Boyle. I will be telling you all the important facts that happened in his life time. I will tell you when he was born and when he died. I will also tell you where he was born and in where at. Also who his parents were and if he had and siblings. I will try to tell you all about Robert Boyle's life. Like what discoveries he made, tell you how he's important, and how he became known. Robert Boyle was born January 25, 1627 in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. His parents were Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton. When Boyle was a child he was fostered to a local family, also his elder brothers. Boyle had gotten taught Greek and French and when he was about eight years of age, following the death of his mom, he was sent off to Eton College in England. At this time Roberts father hired him a tutor, Robert Carew. Spending time with the tutor, they visited Italy in 1641 and stayed in Florence in the winter studying paradoxes of the great star-gazer.…

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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…

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