Robert Boyle was born in Ireland in the county of Waterford in the city of Lismore on the 25th of January 1627. His father Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, had left England in 1588. Robert's mother, Catherine Fenton Boyle, was Richard's second wife. Robert was the seventh son. His parents had a total of fifteen children.
At the age of twelve Robert's father sent him on a tour of Europe eventually leading him to Geneva. There he began to study, with a private tutor, mathematics and "... he grew very well acquainted with the most useful part of arithmetic, geometry, wit
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