Science Adda

31/12/2023

In the 17th century, a man set out to prove that existed. His method was . He defined what we know as the , all the while predicting the future of science in a way that seems almost . That great man is our "scientist of the day" today.

It's death anniversary of , the man who saw the - - -

(Scientist of the Day - 31 December)

Known today as the father of modern , Robert Boyle was one of the most prolific figures in the scientific revolution and the leading scientist of his day. He is best known for Boyle's , which states that for a fixed of an gas kept at a fixed , and are inversely proportional.

With all the important work he accomplished in – the enunciation of Boyle's law, the discovery of the part taken by air in the propagation of sound, and investigations on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific and refractive powers, on crystals, on , on colour, on , etc. – chemistry was his peculiar and favourite study.

In 1660 he helped found the Royal Society of London. He advocated a “mechanical philosophy” that saw the universe as a huge machine or clock in which all natural phenomena were accountable purely by mechanical, clockwork motion.

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