Robert Boyle

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The Renaissance began when people start researching back to their lost culture, Roman and Greek. Many people became influenced by the art and the due development of society. As there were studies and researchers all around, they started thinking of how things around them actually work and how nature growth. As art and new things started to develop, artists and inventors studied math to help them have better resolve on their work. And so many artists began to study many other things. As many people studying new things, science started to evolve in, because of the belief of magic. The studied of magic and mistery was call as alchemist, this word was use before there were chemistry. Science and chemistry develop when people started being curious and interested about how life and things around and in the university actually work. The early scientists was hope to discover how life in nature actually work, how the stars move and how there are days and nights, gravitation and force. People were interested in these thing and they wanted to find out what is the secret behind them. And that's why there was discovery and many famous people who discover new thing which no one had know yet.
Robert Boyle was a very well known scientist, born in January 27, 1627 and died in 1691. He was influenced in science at the age of 14 after travelling and studies in Europe. He returns from Europe in 1644 and he was very interest in science by then. He builds his laboratory in Oxford and London and starts his research. He studies nature chemical and natural color, and he was the first person to publish his work in detail. Boyle studied the behavior of the volume of gas and the pressure and state that if the volume of a gas decrease, the pressure increase. ...

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