English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society.

He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also

an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in

Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second

wife, Boyle was the youngest son in a family of fourteen. However he was not

shortchanged of anything. After private tutoring at home for eight years, Robert Boyle

was sent to Eton College where he studied for four years. At the age of twelve, Boyle

traveled to the Continent, as it was referred to at the time. There he found a private tutor

by the name of Marcombes in Geneva. While traveling between Italy, France, and

England, Boyle was being tutored in the polite arts, philosophy, theology, mathematics,

As the years went by, Boyle became more and more interested in medicine. His

curiosity in this field led him to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly interested in the facet

of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he b

conversion of scientific thought from one in which the spirits and the heavens were kept in

God made it that way. Though Boyle did not argue with this, he did believe that there was

a scientific explanation for God's doings. Boyle's point of view can be seen by his dealings

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