robert boyle in English

noun

(1627-1691) Irish born English physicist and chemist

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1. Hobbes contested the scientific systems of the natural philosophers Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.

2. Advantageouser (English) Adjective Advantageouser (rare, nonstandard) Comparative form of advantageous; Robert Boyle Of both their suavities, experience gives much Advantageouser notions than descriptions can.

3. 1684, Robert Boyle, On the High Veneration Man’s Intellect owes to God Architectonic wisdom; 1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations these Architectonic functions (figuratively) Foundational, fundamental

4. 1648 Posthumous publication of the book Ortus medicinae by Jan Baptist van Helmont, which is cited by some as a major transitional work between alchemy and chemistry, and as an important influence on Robert Boyle.

5. In 1660, capillary action was still a novelty to the Irish chemist Robert Boyle, when he reported that "some inquisitive French Men" had observed that when a capillary tube was dipped into water, the water would ascend to "some height in the Pipe".