The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

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In 1661, natural philosopher Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he argued that matter was composed of various combinations of different " corpuscules " or atoms, rather than the classical elements of air, earth, fire and water.

Robert Boyle pioneered the idea of an absolute zero.

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle.

In his work Prodromo dell ' Arte Maestra ( 1670 ) he proposes a lighter-than-air vessel based on logical deductions from previous work ranging from Archimedes and Euclid to his contemporaries Robert Boyle and Otto von Guericke.

In chemistry this began with Robert Boyle ( 1627 – 1691 ) who came up with an equation known as Boyle's Law about the characteristics of gaseous state.

From the 16th century, researchers including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton tried to establish theories of the experimentally observed chemical transformations.

A huge influence throughout Mather ’ s career was Robert Boyle.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.

He covers over 40 scientists, with special attention paid to Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.

* 1691 – Robert Boyle, English scientist ( b. 1627 )

It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.

Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay.

Other European pioneers were Robert Boyle, who in 1675 stated that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum ; Stephen Gray, who in 1729 classified materials as conductors and insulators ; and C. F. du Fay, who proposed in 1733 that electricity comes in two varieties that cancel each other, and expressed this in terms of a two-fluid theory.

In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which was sealed on one end.

Philosophers associated with empiricism include Aristotle, Alhazen, Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, Robert Grosseteste, William of Ockham, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Leopold von Ranke, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper.

Similarly Robert Boyle, a prominent advocate of the experimental method, held that we have innate ideas.

* Robert Boyle, philosopher and chemist.

* 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist ( d. 1691 )

He obtained a bachelor of medicine in 1674, having studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford and worked with such noted scientists and thinkers as Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Robert Hooke and Richard Lower.

* John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria in English and French, making the ancient city of Baalbek in Syria known to the West.

* Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde publishes The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English of plus and minus signs.

* Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra ; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.

* July 14 – CIA leak scandal: Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative.

* The historian and naturalist, Robert Plot, publishes his Natural history of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county.

* 1965: # Robert D. Workman of the U. S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit ( NEDU ) publishes an equation for computing decompression requirements suitable for implementing in a dive computer, rather than a pre-computed table.

* 1951 — The research group of Robert Robinson with John Cornforth ( Oxford University ) publishes their synthesis of cholesterol, while Robert Woodward ( Harvard University ) publishes his synthesis of cortisone.

* Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.

* Robert Baron publishes his plagiarized work Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.

* Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Deorum Dona, a masque, and Gripus and Hegio, a pastoral, which draw heavily on the poems of Edmund Waller and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing Harper's Magazine after the August 1980 issue ; however, on July 9, 1980, John R. MacArthur and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and CEO Robert Orville Anderson to amass the one-and-a-half million dollars needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation that currently publishes the magazine.

The Southern Review, a literary journal co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks and located on the campus of Louisiana State University, publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress by established and emerging writers.

It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations, including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.

For example the U. S. group publishes the newspaper Workers Vanguard, which is known for its acerbic running commentary on the activities of other leftist groups, its sarcastic wit, and its obituaries of leftist figures whose lives often are inadequately analyzed and / or memorialized in the mainstream media, recently including Bill Epton, Richard Fraser, Robert F. Williams, and Myra Tanner Weiss.

* 1906 – Robert Hunter publishes " Poverty ", describing the 10 million Americans living in poverty

* 1844 (- 1849 )-George Robert Gray head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum publishes Genera of Birds ( 1844 – 49 ), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf.

* Scottish surgeon Robert Kerr publishes The Animal Kingdom, the first two volumes of an English translation of Linnaeus ' Systema Naturae.

* Robert Remak publishes Untersuchungen über die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere in Berlin, providing evidence for cell division, which is supported ( but not acknowledged ) by Rudolf Virchow.