Boyle's Law Published
1662
The Anglo-Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle, working with his assistant Robert Hooke and a vacuum pump of exquisite construction, demonstrated that the volume of a gas varies inversely with its pressure. Published in The Sceptical Chymist's companion experiments, Boyle's Law was among the first quantitative relationships in chemistry and a foundation stone of modern physics.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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