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رابرت بویل

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Also known as Sir Robert Boyle, Hon. Robert Boyle, The Hon. Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle was a physicist, chemist, philosopher, and naturalist from the Kingdom of England. He was educated at Eton College and worked as an employee of the University of Oxford. Boyle was a member of the Royal Society and the Invisible College, and he is recognized in the Royal Society collection. His field of work included physics, chemistry, and philosophy.

Born in 1627, Boyle was the son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. He had siblings Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery; Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh; and Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington. He was influenced by Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Cornelis Drebbel. Boyle resided in County Waterford and England, and his religious worldview was Anglicanism. He spoke English, French, Latin, and Irish.

Boyle authored 379 works, including *Some motives and incentives to the love of God*, *A discourse concerning pulick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings*, *Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood*, *The aerial noctiluca, or, Some new phœnomena, and a process of a factitious self-shining substance*, and *An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion*. He died on December 31, 1691, in London and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

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Born
1627
Died
1691
Works
379

Top works

  • Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus
  • Some motives and incentives to the love of God
  • The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy) illustrated by considerations and experimemts[!]
  • Paradoxa hydrostatica novis experimentis (maximam partem physicis ac facilibus) evicta, et Regiae Britanniarvm societati exhibita
  • A discourse concerning pulick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings

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Instance of
human
Given name
Robert
Family name
Boyle
Gender
male
Place of birth
Lismore Castle
Place of death
London
Occupation
philosopher
Educated at
Eton College
Languages spoken
Irish
Religion
Anglicanism
Doctoral student
Robert Hooke
Field of work
philosophy
Image
Robert Boyle portrait shifted.jpg
Residence
England
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Robert Boyle
date of birth
1626-01-25
date of death
1691-12-31
topic's main category
Category:Robert Boyle
influenced by
Ibn Tufayl
name in native language
Robert Boyle
writing language
English language
honorific prefix
The Honourable
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
different from
Robert F. Boyle
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