Biography and contribution of robert boyle
Biography and contribution of robert boyle in chemistry
Robert boyle in atomic theory.
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Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
London, England
His work in chemistry was aimed at establishing it as a mathematical science based on a mechanistic theory of matter.
Biography
Robert Boyle was born into a Protestant family. His father was Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, who had left England in 1588 at the age of 22 and gone to Ireland.Biography and contribution of robert boyle
Appointed clerk of the council of Munster by Elizabeth I in 1600, he bought Sir Walter Raleigh's estates in the counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary two years later. Robert's mother, Catherine Fenton, was Richard Boyle's second wife, his first having died within a year of the birth of their first child.
Robert was the seventh son (and fourteenth child) of his parents fifteen children (twelve of the fifteen survived childhood). Richard Boyle was in his 60s and Catherine Boy