id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5178 Robert Boyle - Wikipedia .html text/html 10230 1666 59 He is best known for Boyle's law,[8] which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.[9] Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. Robert Boyle was an alchemist;[25] and believing the transmutation of metals to be a possibility, he carried out experiments in the hope of achieving it; and he was instrumental in obtaining the repeal, in 1689, of the statute of Henry IV against multiplying gold and silver.[26][14] With all the important work he accomplished in physics – the enunciation of Boyle's law, the discovery of the part taken by air in the propagation of sound, and investigations on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific gravities and refractive powers, on crystals, on electricity, on colour, on hydrostatics, etc. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5178.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5178.txt