Robert Boyle was born in County Waterford, South East Ireland. His father was Richard Boyle and his mother was Catherine Fenton, daughter of Geoffrey Fenton, secretary of state for Ireland. 10 facts about the man famous for Boyle's Law.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/01/25-january-robert-boyle.html

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Robert Boyle got a brief mention in something I wrote many years ago. Since then, he has continually re-emerged in my consciousness, provoking within me both curiosity and disquiet as he does so.

The author of "The Christian Virtuoso" helped engineer the early modern understanding of the mechanical universe and associated that understanding with Protestant piety.

When we remember the Boyle family's motto - "God's Providence Is Mine Inheritance" -- and that family''s role in the English colonization of Ireland, we might see foreshadowed in Robert Boyle that combination of a sense of divine election, a belief in the right and duty to rule, and a confidence in the providential workings of a God in nature that would infuse so many English settlers around the world - especially those in what would later become the USA.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/405637/robert-boyle-1627-1691

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#TIL (via #RiversOfLondon by Ben Aaronovitch) that #RobertBoyle wrote the earliest known report of the #bloodhound 's ability to track people (here: https://books.google.ie/books?id=ktYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 , he also discussed the scenting ability of other breeds, including Irish #dogs hunting wolves)

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25 Jan: #RobertBoyle was born #OTD 1627, the seventh son and fourteenth child of the Great Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle and his wife Catherine Fenton.

Robert Boyle is famous as the Father of Chemistry and the discoverer of Boyles Law, but he was also an important figure in the creation of the discipline of #science #PhilosophyOfScience

We have a depiction of him as a child (about 5) from his father's massive family monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, #Dublin.

Images: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Boyle_monument_in_St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin

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O wad some Pow'r
the giftie gie us
To see oursels
as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a
blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress
an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!
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