Robert Boyle
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Robert Boyle Robert Boyle was a known natural philosopher during the 1600s. He was born in 1627 and died in 1691. He is recognized for his involvement with chemistry and is considered a “father of chemistry.” Boyle was responsible for his contribution to both the formation of the Experimental Philosophy Club and the Royal Society of London. Boyle worked alongside Robert Hooke to create the air pump to study pneumatics; leading to the discovery of air pressure and the vacuum. In 1662, Boyle discovered a relationship between the pressure of a gas and its volume at a given temperature. It was also discovered by Edme Mariotte, a french physicist, and is known as Boyle’s law , the Boyle-Mariotte law , and the Mariotte law . Boyle’s law was given the formula PV = k , where P is the pressure of a gas, V is the volume of its container, and k is a constant, such as the temperature. The law describes how the pressure of a gas at a constant temperature increases when the volume of its