Boyle was a chemist who lived and worked in England and Ireland during the late 17th century. He was a believer in Descartes’s model of the world, and he used this paradigm to arrive at what is now known as Boyle’s Law: the volume of gas, he discovered, decreases as the pressure of gas increases (and vice versa).
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Chapter 3. The Nature of Normal Science
...lists several examples of these kind of constants: there is Avogadro’s number in chemistry, or Boyle’s law in physics (both of which are named after the men who discovered them).
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Chapter 11. The Invisibility of Revolutions
...to solve the same questions—the questions of whatever today’s paradigm is. Many textbooks praise Robert Boyle as the first modern chemist because he defined the term “element” much as today’s chemists...
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