Robert Boyle - Famous Scientists |
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| ROBERT BOYLE Born: 25 Jan 1627 in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland Died: 30 Dec 1691 in London, England
Official Boyle Website Robert Boyle Project
Boyle's assistants are well known today. Robert Hooke (microscopes) was one. The other was French scientist and inventor Denis Papin, who invented, of all things, the pressure cooker, which proposed the principles of the new steam engines..
Links: Boyle's Law History of Ideas Galileo Project Royal Society
Famous Quotes: He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. | |