Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist (1661) falls into the last category. Widely celebrated as a landmark, it remains misrepresented, misunderstood and unread. It has been praised for opening the ...

Auctioneers Bonhams said a rare first edition of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist - published in London in 1661 - had sold for £362,500 (€492,192). The price achieved was over five times ...

And in fact, Robert Boyle wrote a 1661 treatice called "The Sceptical Chymist," and he renamed the field chemistry. And he's known for a lot of things, best known for Boyle's Law, the universally ...

ALTHOUGH Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is well known for his law of compression of gases and for his clear definition of a chemical element (given in his “Sceptical Chymist”, 1661), his many other ...

Robert Boyle was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology. He is best known for Boyle's law. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist ...

ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691), the “Father of Chemistry ... associated with the ideas of Aristotle. In his book, The Sceptical Chymist, Boyle attacked Aristotle's and Paracelsus's theories.

In case of abuse, Robert Boyle is considered one of the founders ... eschewing magic for measures in his book The Sceptical Chymist. He is best known today for Boyle’s Law, which describes ...

Robert Boyle FRS (25 January 1627 – 31 December ... Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. Boyle was born in Lismore Castle, in County ...