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R.E.W. Maddison, The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1969), is a readable biography. Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist (1995), discusses Boyle’s experimental style and philosophy of science. Lawrence M. Principe, The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest (1997), follows Boyle’s pursuit of transmutational alchemy, and the background to Boyle’s law is thoroughly covered in Charles Webster, “The Discovery of Boyle’s Law,” in Archive for the History of the Exact Sciences, 2:441–502 (1965).
All of Boyle’s publications, together with some previously unpublished material, are collected along with extensive biographical and bibliographic information in Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis (eds.), The Works of Robert Boyle (1999–2000). Boyle’s surviving correspondence appears in Michael Hunter and Antonio Clericuzio, The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (2000).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Robert Boyle on the importance of reporting and replicating experiments. | Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 21, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Physical Society - This Month in Physics History - December 31, 1691: Death of Robert Boyle. | Dec 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - Robert Boyle - God, atoms and alchemy. | Aug 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Robert Boyle. | May 05, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 16, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Robert Boyle. | Oct 11, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Dictionary of Irish Biography - Robert Boyle. | May 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science History Institute - Robert Boyle. | Feb 19, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 04, 2021 | ||
| Removed cross-reference. | Mar 02, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Robert Boyle. | Dec 06, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Robert Boyle Facts and Biography. | Feb 26, 2019 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Apr 23, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Galileo Project - Biography of Robert Boyle. | Nov 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wolfram Research - Biography of Robert Boyle. | Nov 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Robert Boyle. | May 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Robert Boyle. | May 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Purdue University - Bodner Research Web - Biography of Robert Boyle. | May 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemical Heritage Foundation - Biography of Robert Boyle. | May 01, 2013 | ||
| In the introductory statement, changed "British" to "Anglo-Irish." | Feb 08, 2012 | ||
| Image of Boyle's law added. | Jun 24, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Robert Boyle. | Mar 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Robert Boyle. | Jun 26, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 26, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |