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The Vacuum Pump

Boyle lays down the Law

Robert Boyle philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born is being lauded as a pioneering modern chemist, he is blazing a trail he calls the modern experimental scientific method. Last week at the Royal society he unveiled his revolutionary 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