Robert Boyle used an air pump and sealed receiver to investigate how reduced gas pressure affected physical phenomena. Moving from an open atmosphere to a controllable vessel allowed the presence and mechanical effects of air to become experimental variables. His gas studies also connected pressure and volume, the relation commemorated by Boyle's law.[ref]
New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall by Robert Boyle. 1660: air-pump receiver and experiments on the spring of air; pressure-volume relation in the later appendix
Chemist whose investigations included controlled operations on air in a receiver attached to an air pump.
Portrait of Robert Boyle
. Photograph by Eowyn041084, 16 January 2013, of a portrait attributed to Jonathan Richardson (died 1745). CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor who is often referred to as one of the founders of modern chemistry. He is best known for Boyle's Law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature. His work laid the groundwork for the scientific method and emphasized experimentation and observation.
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