Robert Boyle. Caricature of the Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle (1627-1691),pointing at his air pump. Boyle used this pump,which he made with the assistance of Robert Hooke in 1654,to study the effects of pressure on gases. It could produce a reasonable vacuum,which allowed him to show that sound cannot travel through a vacuum,and that objects fall at the same rate in the absence of air. Boyle is best remembered for Boyle's Law,which states that at a given temperature,the volume of a gas is proportional to its pressure | |
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