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2 days ago · Newton and Robert Boyle's approach to the mechanical philosophy was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the pantheists and enthusiasts, and was accepted hesitantly by orthodox preachers as well as dissident preachers like the latitudinarians.
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS PRS (25 December 1643 – 20 March...
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5 days ago · Robert Boyle was the first to use phosphorus to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of our modern matches, in 1680. Phosphorus was the 13th element to be discovered. Because of its tendency to spontaneously combust when left alone in air, it is sometimes referred to as "the Devil's element". Bone ash and guano
2 days ago · Hooke began his scientific career as an assistant to the physical scientist Robert Boyle. Hooke built the vacuum pumps that were used in Boyle's experiments on gas law and also conducted experiments. In 1664, Hooke identified the rotations of Mars and Jupiter.
2 days ago · Notable scientists who self-identified as Christians: Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Francis Bacon and Johannes Kepler. H. Floris Cohen argued for a biblical Protestant, but not excluding Catholicism, influence on the early development of modern science.
2 days ago · Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban [a] PC ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the ...
1 day ago · Robert Boyle, chemist; John Gurdon, biologist and Nobel laureate; J. B. S. Haldane, biologist and statistician; Henry Moseley, physicist; John Maynard Smith, biologist and geneticist; John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist; Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist; Richard Wrangham, biological anthropologist; Journalists
5 days ago · Greatorex and the scientist Robert Boyle. Greatorex may have died in 1712 and he certainly had a wide range of mechanical interests, according to a website devoted to Robert Boyle (1627-91), the famous chemist and natural philosopher who came up with Boyle's Law ("The pressure and volume of gas are inversely proportional.")
