Robert Boyle was born on 25 January 1627 in Lismore Castle. An Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, Boyle is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry and of the experimental method. Working with his assistant Robert Hooke, he built an air pump and showed that the volume of a gas varies inversely with its pressure at constant temperature, a relation known as Boyle's law. In The Sceptical Chymist he criticized the traditional Aristotelian four-element theory and argued for a corpuscular view of matter. He was a founder of the Royal Society, was deeply religious and funded translations of the Bible and lectures defending Christianity.
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- from 1 November 1625 to 15 November 1630Anglo-Spanish War of 1625–1630
- from 1626 to 1629Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629
- 1626Founding of Peabody
- 9 April 1626Death of Francis Bacon
- 25 January 1627Birth of Robert Boyle
- 3 March 1627First Manchu invasion of Korea
- from 20 June 1627 to 17 July 1627Turkish Abductions
- from 10 September 1627 to 28 October 1628Siege of La Rochelle
- 1628Founding of Royal Armoury
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