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3605 followers · 270034 posts · Server schleuss.onlineA Little Bit of Science History Repeating Itself: Boyleβs List - In a recent blog post, [Benjamin Breen] makes an interesting case that 2023 might ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/a-little-bit-of-science-history-repeating-itself-boyles-list/ #robertboyle #science #rants
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The Royal Society had obviously got past Hobbes's attack on #RobertBoyle's treatise on the air pump https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/thomas-hobbes
Hobbes had earlier disputed (while both were in Paris) with John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, over free will and necessity.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/02/hobbes-bramhall-liberty-necessity-nayeli-riano.html
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1260 followers · 468 posts · Server mastodon.ie#Hobbes (born #OTD 1588) had a bad reputation. Possibly worse in Ireland: Thomas Molyneux (brother of #WilliamMolyneux) was scandalized by a bust of Hobbes being given a prominent spot in the Royal Society.
The Royal Society had obviously got past Hobbes's attack on #RobertBoyle's treatise on the air pump https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/thomas-hobbes
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#TIL (via #RiversOfLondon by Ben Aaronovitch) that #RobertBoyle wrote the earliest known report of the #bloodhound 's ability to track people (here: https://books.google.ie/books?id=ktYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 , he also discussed the scenting ability of other breeds, including Irish #dogs hunting wolves)
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25 Jan: #RobertBoyle was born #OTD 1627, the seventh son and fourteenth child of the Great Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle and his wife Catherine Fenton.
Robert Boyle is famous as the Father of Chemistry and the discoverer of Boyles Law, but he was also an important figure in the creation of the discipline of #science #PhilosophyOfScience
We have a depiction of him as a child (about 5) from his father's massive family monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, #Dublin.
Images: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Boyle_monument_in_St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin
#robertboyle #otd #science #philosophyofscience #dublin
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1177 followers · 644 posts · Server mastodon.ie25 Jan: #RobertBoyle was born #OTD 1627, the seventh son and fourteenth child of the Great Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle and his wife Catherine Fenton.
Robert Boyle is famous as the Father of Chemistry and the discoverer of Boyles Law, but he was also an important figure in the creation of the discipline of #science #PhilosophyOfScience
We have a depiction of him as a child (aged about 5) from his father's massive family monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, #Dublin.
#robertboyle #otd #science #philosophyofscience #dublin
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In 1661, Robert Boyle published the principles on which chemistry would be distinguished from alchemy. #Science #History #Poetry #Chemistry #RobertBoyle (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1661.html)
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Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1090 followers · 850 posts · Server mastodon.ieNow a couple of less well known things about #RobertBoyle. He was intensely religious and among his religious writings was a tale, "Love and Religion Demonstrated in the Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus".
Handel made it into an opera, "Theodora". Listen here: https://youtu.be/pe2AIay_Yy8
Link to the digitised book: https://books.google.ie/books?id=WJU0AAAAMAAJ
And for something lighter, here's #JonathanSwift 's #broomtastic satire of Boyle's "Occasional Reflections" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-meditation-upon-a-broomstick-1711
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Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
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31 Dec: #RobertBoyle died in the early hours of 31st December 1691 (often given as 30th Dec).
Chemist (encouraged by his sister #LadyRanelagh), famous for Boyle's Law (volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure & vice versa).
A key figure in the development of the #NewPhilosophy (#science), making experiment central and espousing a mechanistic theory of matter.
#SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boyle/
#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boyle-robert-a0858
Omg: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shannon_Portrait_of_the_Hon_Robert_Boyle.jpg
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914 followers · 758 posts · Server mastodon.ieAnne Finch was born #OTD 1631. She was married to Edward Conway, later (in 1755) the 3rd Viscount Conway (English) and 3rd Viscount Killultagh (Irish).
#AnneConway was never in Ireland but she had Irish connections: she corresponded with philosophers #RobertBoyle and #DorothyMoore (and possibly #LadyRanelagh).
She also knew #JeremyTaylor. Her husband brought Taylor to Portmore Co. Antrim in 1658, probably to protect him.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/12/14/anne-conway-and-ireland/
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Among the many notable people #LadyRanelagh hosted in London was the healer Valentine Greatrakes (already known to her brother Roger Boyle, as his neighbour).
Both she and her brother #RobertBoyle were interested in the debate around Greatrakes ability (which failed to relieve the suffering of #MaryConway). A pamphlet on Greatrakes was dedicated to Robert Boyle, arguing the former's ability could be explained both naturally & miraculously. (DiMeo, pp. 146-7)
Greatrakes died #otd 1683.
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RT @HSMOxford
Today is #CreateAVacuumDay & we've got this ...
Here's a print of Robert Boyle's first air pump built in his #Oxford #laboratory around 1658 CE.
You can see a blue plaque commemorating #RobertBoyle on the wall of @UnivOxford.
#histphysics #histsci #robertboyle #laboratory #oxford #createavacuumday