| Robert Boyle |
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The Scientific Revolution |
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1625: Accession of Charles I |
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1627: 25 Jan. Born at Lismore, Ireland, seventh son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, by his second wife, Catherine |
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1626: Death of Francis Bacon, who inspired Boyle's scientific method.
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1628: William Harvey publishes his discovery of the circulation of the blood |
1635, 2 Oct: Enters Eton College with his brother, Francis, later Viscount Shannon |
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1636: Ship Money case |
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1638, 23 Nov: Leaves Eton College |
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1638: Publication of Galileo's Discourses on Two New Sciences |
1639: Travels to France and Switzerland with Francis, under the tutelage of Isaac Marcombes; spends several months in Geneva |
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1641: Travels to Italy |
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1642: Stranded at Marseilles; returns to Geneva |
1642: Outbreak of Civil War |
1642 : Death of Galileo; birth of Newton |
1644: Returns to England |
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1644 : Publication of Descartes' Principia philosophiae, the fullest exposition of the mechanical philosophy |
1645: Settles at Stalbridge, Dorset, where he spends much of the next decade |
1645: End of 1st Civil War |
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1649: laboratory established at Stalbridge |
1648-9: 2nd Civil War
1649, Jan: Execution of Charles I |
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1651: Publication of Hobbes' Leviathan seen by many as a threat to Christianity |
1652-4: Visits Ireland |
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1653: Establishment of Protectorate |
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1654: Severe illness in Ireland, affecting Boyle's eyesight |
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Late 1655 or early 1656: Settles at Oxford
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1656-7: Blood transfusion experiments at Oxford
1657: Otto von Guericke's vacuum experiment |
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1658: Death of Oliver Cromwell |
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1659: First executes experiments with air-pump |
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1660 : 28 Nov. Attends inaugural meeting of Royal Society |
1660: Restoration of Charles II |
1660: Foundation of Royal Society |
1662, 7 Feb: Appointed first Governor of the Corporation for Propagation of the Gospel in New England |
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1665: Great Plague |
1665: Publication of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, in which he revealed the findings of the microscope and discussed many natural phenomena |
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1666: Fire of London |
1666: Foundation of Académie des Sciences |
1668: Settles in London, living for the rest of his life with Lady Ranelagh in Pall Mall. |
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1670: Suffers severe stroke. |
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1680: 18 Dec. Declines presidency of the Royal Society |
1678-81: Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis |
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1685: Death of Charles II; accession of James II |
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1687: Publication of Newton's Principia |
1689, 22 Aug: Resigns Governorship of Corporation for Propagation of the Gospel in New England |
1688-9: Glorious Revolution
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1691, 18 July: Will signed and sealed
23 Dec: Lady Ranelagh dies.
31 Dec: Boyle dies. |
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1692, 7 Jan: Buried at St Martin's in the Fields. Burnet's funeral sermon delivered |
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1692: Richard Bentley gives first Boyle Lectures, in which science was used to defend religion |
