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    48 ROBERT BOYLE

    experiments of his own, Boyle he was intent on pointing out that


    commissioned Robert Hooke (p.54) the results described are all from
    to design and build an air pump. experiments, since at the time even
    Hooke’s air pump consisted of a such noted experimentalists as
    glass “receiver” (container) whose Galileo often also reported the
    Men are so accustomed to diameter was nearly 16 in (40 cm), results of “thought experiments.”
    judge of things by their senses a cylinder with a piston below it, Many of Boyle’s experiments
    that, because the air is and an arrangement of plugs were directly connected to air
    indivisible, they ascribe but and valves between them. pressure. The receiver could be
    little to it, and think it but Successive movements of the modified to hold a Torricelli
    one remove from nothing. piston drew more and more air out barometer, with the tube sticking
    Robert Boyle of the receiver. Due to slow leaks
    in the seals of the equipment, the
    near-vacuum inside the receiver
    could only be maintained for a
    short time. Nevertheless, the
    machine was a great improvement
    on anything made previously, an
    demonstration in 1654, when he put example of the importance of
    two metal hemispheres together technology to the furthering
    with an airtight seal between them of scientific investigation.
    and pumped the air out of them—
    two teams of horses were unable Experimental results
    to pull the hemispheres apart. Boyle performed a number of
    Before the air was pumped out, different experiments with the
    the air pressure inside the sealed air pump, which he described in
    hemispheres was the same as the his 1660 book New Experiments
    air pressure outside. Without the air Physico-Mechanical. In the book,
    inside, pressure from the outside
    air held the hemispheres together. Otto von Guericke built the first air
    Robert Boyle learned of von pump. His experiments with the pump
    Guericke’s experiments when they provided evidence against Aristotle’s
    were published in 1657. To do idea that “Nature abhors a vacuum.”

    Robert Boyle Robert Boyle was born in Ireland, to discuss their ideas. This
    the 14th child of the Earl of Cork. group became the Royal Society
    He was tutored at home before in 1663, and Boyle was one
    attending Eton College in England of the first council members.
    and then touring Europe. His In addition to his interests
    father died in 1643, leaving him in science, Boyle performed
    enough money to indulge his experiments in alchemy and
    interest in science full time. Boyle wrote about theology and the
    moved back to Ireland for a couple origin of different human races.
    of years, but lived in Oxford from
    1654 to 1668 so that he could do Key works
    his work more easily, and then
    moved to London. 1660 New Experiments
    Boyle was part of a group of Physico-Mechanical:
    men studying scientific subjects Touching the Spring of the
    called the “Invisible College,” Air and their Effects
    who met in London and Oxford 1661 The Sceptical Chymist

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