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...vacuum'. Shortly thereafter, [[Britain|British]] physicist and chemist [[Robert Boyle]] had learned of Guericke's designs and in 1656, in coordination with Briti ...on. In precursory form, classical thermodynamics derives from physicist [[Robert Boyle]]’s 1662 postulate that the pressure ''P'' of a given quantity of gas var

...dition he proposed that atoms moved in a void with nothing between them. [[Robert Boyle]] and [[Isaac Newton]] were later to continue to develop the concept.<ref>[

*[[Robert Boyle]], (1627&ndash;1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry

...Gilbert ]], [[Francis Bacon ]], [[William Harvey ]], [[Robert Hooke ]], [[Robert Boyle, ]] [[Samuel Pepys, ]] [[John Wilkins ]], [[Christopher Wren]], and [[Isaac

...f nature, championed by Rene Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle.

...ested by the ancient Greeks, the Greek idea accepted without evidence by [[Robert Boyle]] and [[Isaac Newton]] earlier than Dalton, Dalton, however, the first to p ...natural philosophers, [[Leucippus]] and [[Democritus]], and accepted by [[Robert Boyle]] and [[Isaac Newton]].

...had no empirical support at the time. Much later the English polymaths, [[Robert Boyle]] (dates) and [[Isaac Newton]] (1643-1727) championed the idea and added to

...to stop bleeding and swelling. With the emergence of modern [[science]], [[Robert Boyle]] studied the effects of low temperatures on animals.

...ronomy and optics. On his own he read Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Galileo, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Kenelm Digby, Joseph Glanville, and Henry More. He was a lo

...and Water&mdash;as the primary constituents of all matter, even though [[Robert Boyle]] had earlier expressed considerable doubts about it. There was already a c

In science, [[Robert Boyle]] was a seventeenth-century physicist who discovered [[Boyle's Law]]. [[Ern

...ry'', Dover, New York (1960)</ref> The first (1670) written source is by [[Robert Boyle]] in his ''New Experiments touching the Relation between Flame and Air'', w

...uced many generations of top British leaders, including such scientists as Robert Boyle, John Herschel, Julian Huxley, John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh), Stephen

...ding to Rudolf Eucken (1910), the term ''materialism'' was first used by [[Robert Boyle]], in his ''The excellence and grounds of the mechanical philosophy'', pub

...s laws of motion, [[Harvey]]'s discovery of the circulation of blood and [[Robert Boyle]]'s chemical discoveries.