Sujet
Robert Boyle, 17th century Irish chemist and physicist, 1739. Artist: George Vertue
Légende
Robert Boyle, 17th century Irish chemist and physicist, 1739. After attending school at Eton, Boyle (1627-1691), the seventh son of the 1st Earl of Cork, spent six years in Europe. He settled in Oxford in 1654 and carried out experiments on air, respiration, combustion, and the vacuum with Robert Hooke as his assistant. In 1662 he formulated Boyle's Law that pressure and volume of gas are inversely proportional. In 1668 he moved to London and devoted much time to science and the Royal Society. After a portrait by the German painter Johann Kerseboom (fl1680).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1739
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_439
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,0Mo (4,6Mo) / 22,1cm x 34,1cm / 2606 x 4028 (300dpi)