1627.01.25

Robert Boyle

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First name
Robert
Last name
Boyle
Date of Birth
1627.01.25
Date of Death
1691.12.31
Born in
Lismore
Died in
London

Relationships

Samuel Hartlib

Contact

Niels Stensen

Contact

Adam Boreel

Correspondent

Benedictus Spinoza, de

Correspondent

Richard Lower

Friend

Burchard Volder, de

Friend

Robert Hooke

Personal assistant

Portrait Boyle

Portrait of Robert Boyle (Pieter Schenck (I)/John Smith, 1670–1713, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-1905-5969)

Engraving of Robert Boyle’s ‘pneumatical engine’ in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of Air (London, 1660). The air-pump or vacuum chamber, designed and constructed in 1659 by Robert Hooke (1635–1703), was used for a pneumatic test (performed in the Royal Society in mid-July 1663) which is described in a letter by Oldenburg to Spinoza (10 August 1663).

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