Robert Boyle ( 1627-1691 ): formulated Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas ( if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system ), wrote The Sceptical Chymist ( seen as cornerstone book in the field of chemistry ), regarded as the first modern chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry

His first book on the subject was The Sceptical Chymist, published in 1661, in which he criticised the " experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things.

Robert Boyle ( 1627 – 1691 ), author of The Sceptical Chymist ; considered to be the father of modern chemistry

And reading Bertrand Russell's Sceptical Essays leads Sandra to vow to be ' considerate and understanding and ready to serve humanity.

* " A Sceptical Look at ' A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper '" by J C Lester.

This distinction begins to emerge when a clear differentiation was made between chemistry and alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work The Sceptical Chymist ( 1661 ).

Her identification with feminism and her focus on bioethics both occurred “ by accident ” during the writing of her first book, The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry ( Routledge, 1980 ; Penguin, 1982 ) – bioethics being central to the abortion debate.

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.

# Chemistry, Boyle writes his classic chemistry text The Sceptical Chymist.

The 2nd edition ( 1787 ) contained a Refutation of Idealism to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's Dogmatic Idealism.

He is also credited for his landmark publication The Sceptical Chymist, where he attempts to develop an atomic theory of matter.

Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry.

* Striker, Gisela, " Sceptical strategies " in G. Striker, Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 ): 92-115.

Sceptical about the ability of " a reduced armoured brigade, with only limited mobile infantry and artillery support " to seriously worry the Germans, Buckley notes that in addition to the uncommitted elements of 7th Armoured the 151st Infantry Brigade was available in corps reserve.

Chemistry as an earnest and respectable science is often said to date from 1661, when Robert Boyle of Oxford published The Sceptical Chymist — the first work to distinguish between chemists and alchemists — but it was a slow and often erratic transition.

Antiochos and Herakleitos dissected it at length in Lucullus ' presence, and in the ensuing weeks while the Roman party continued to await the arrival of the king from the south, Antiochos composed a vigorous polemic against Philo entitled Sosos, which marked his definitive break with Philo's so-called " Sceptical Academy ", and the beginning of the separate, more conservative, school eventually called the Old Academy.

* Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist is published in London.

Sceptical of the message's value, the Director refuses to send it to Scott and a heated exchange follows.

His two volumes of autobiography, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain, have been highly praised.

", Sceptical Inquirer, Volume 28. 2, March / April 2004

Sceptical at first of UNIT's ambit to defend against alien invasion, Shaw changes her mind when she encounters the newly-regenerated Doctor and becomes involved in defeating the plans of the Nestene Consciousness and its animated plastic Autons.

He is also credited for his landmark publication The Sceptical Chymist, where he attempts to develop an atomic theory of matter, with no small degree of success.

Sceptical views are expressed in Job, Proverbs 30: 2-4 ( Agur ), and Ecclesiastes ; the rest take the then orthodox positions on faith.

It was a period of prolific song-writing, and some of the best songs from this period appeared on the album ' Songs for Sceptical Circles ' and on ' A Laugh, a Song and a Hand Grenade ', which was a live recording of Rosselson's songs interspersed with the poems of Adrian Mitchell.

* “ Reactions to Aristotle in the Greek Sceptical Traditions ”, Méthexis: Revista Internacional de Filosofia Antigua XII ( 1999 ), p. 17-34.

Salzedo's technique generally calls for the arms to be held horizontally and emphasises the role of aesthetic hand and arm gestures after the string has been plucked: " Each of the thirty-seven tone colors and effects of the harp calls for a gesture corresponding to its sonorous meaning.

Skeptical in tone, it held that the law should be understood and determined by the actual practices of courts, law offices, and police stations, rather than as the rules and doctrines set forth in statutes or learned treatises.

Despite the disdain of sousaphones held by most serious tuba players, a quality modern sousaphone is often a better choice for the high school or semi-pro player due to more stable intonation and less breath effort needed to generate tone.

In addition, Gioia highlights Beiderbecke's precise timing, relaxed delivery, and pure tone, which contrasted with " the dirty, rough-edged sound " of King Oliver and his protégé Armstrong, whose playing was often more energetic and whose style held more sway early in the 1920s than Beiderbecke's.

The report included much of the same tone and opinions held in the Washington Society address, except that, uncharacteristically for its chief architect, it alluded to the threat of secession saying, " If a separation of the states shall ever take place, it will be, on some occasion, when one portion of the country undertakes to control, to regulate, and to sacrifice the interest of another.

Because of the Articles ' harsh tone, however, they have generally not been held in high regard by most Anglo-Catholics.

From the moment that Wyatt and his brothers are discovered on the wide and dusty range, trailing a herd of cattle to a far-off promised land, a tone of pictorial authority is struck — and it is held.

Until 1686, the May Fair was held in Haymarket, and after 1764, it moved to Fair Field in Bow because the well-to-do residents of the area felt the fair lowered the tone of the neighbourhood.

Rubinstein's own piano students were held just as accountable: he wanted them to think about the music they were playing, matching the tone to the piece and the phrase.

* Suspension ( music ), one or more notes temporarily held before resolving to a chord tone

Its tone, look, and feel held similarities to the original film, but was more influenced by the works of David Lynch and David Cronenberg than of the German Expressionists.

He states, " There is no reason to contradict the widely held view that the salon was a feminist space insofar as it was more often than not presided over by a woman who gave it tone and structure.

The Bull was criticized for the unprecedented vehemence of its tone, for its exaggerated indictment of the hostile attitude of the laity of all ages towards the clergy, and for its failure to make clear the distinction between the revenues of the purely ecclesiastical benefices and the " lay fees " held by the clergy on feudal tenure.

Vocals are extremely tense, producing dynamic contrast, ornamentation, and pulsation, and also often using multiple sudden accents in one held tone.

When Testimony was published in the West in 1979, Shostakovich's overall anti-Stalinist tone and specific comments about the anti-totalitarian content hidden in the Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Symphonies were held suspect initially.

Happy faces followed by angry vocal tones produce more changes than the other incongruous pairing, while there was no such difference between happy and angry congruous pairings, with the greater reaction implying that infants held greater expectations of a happy vocal tone after seeing a happy face than an angry tone following an angry face.

By working with short segments of the paired tracks and adjusting both so that the reference tone was held to a steady pitch, it was possible to correct the irregularity and greatly improve the results.

The show attempted thereafter to return to the usual format, though it held a somewhat somber tone for the rest of the day.

Going into the series, both Guillén and Scioscia kept a civil tone publicly, each indicating that the past was behind them and claiming that they held no hard feelings toward each other.

While the United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy shared some of the same ideology as other groups who have held or do hold similar views, it was not intended to be anti-Jewish in tone or in content.

Featley had on 17 October 1643 held fierce argument in Southwark with William Kiffin and three other baptists, the substance of which he embodied in his best-known work entitled The Dippers Dipt Denne, hurt by the tone of Featley's diatribe, offered to dispute the ten arguments with him face to face ; and then drew up his Antichrist Unmasked, which appeared by 1 April 1645, when Featley was already a dying man ; another reply by Samuel Richardson, entitled Some brief Considerations, followed soon afterwards.

On April 14, 2005, DeLay held a news conference and issued an apology for the tone of his comments.

The album held a much cleaner tone than the first, but still retained the recognizable live sound that they were known for.