In 1661, the British genius boy Boyle overthrew Aristotle, and a "Doubtful Chemist" was born, subverting 2,000 years of cognition. Although he was inevitably ridiculed and questioned, he became the founder of chemistry, and even Newton and Hooke were impressed.
Boyle's law is the first law in the history of human science - Boyle, it is so awesome and domineering!
The genius Boyle, whose origin is also enviable and jealous, is of noble blood, a child of the royal family, and is richer than the rich second generation.
It's just that Boyle is an outlier in the rich second generation, not a girl, not a troublemaker, but likes to read, and he still reads the famous Galileo.
In those days, anyone who read Galileo inevitably fell into the pit of "science", and Boyle was no exception.
In 1644, the young and frivolous Boyle had already become a famous chemist, but he was still not satisfied, and he did a big thing unruly -
He organized a scientific society called the "Invisible University", which later became the eternal Royal Society.
That is to say, the Royal Society was completely founded by Boyle, and it is so domineering.
However, Boyle was too lazy to be the president of the Royal Society, but instead went to do chemical experiments alone, and hired a genius boy as an assistant - this boy was Newton's later lifelong enemy Hooker.
As the founder of the scientific community, Boyle's thinking at that time was very advanced, with one purpose - to doubt everything!
Yes, just doubt everything.
Whatever the theory, Boyle dared to doubt it.
He even doubted the "four-element theory" that had lasted for 2,000 years!
The four-element theory began in the time of Aristotle, when ancient Greece had no scientific thought at all, and the cognition of matter stayed in "what you see is what you get" -
For example, when you see a field, it is soil; When you see a river, it's water...
Therefore, Aristotle and others summarized this thing and proposed that matter is composed of four elements: earth, water, fire and air.
This is the four-element theory!
For 2,000 years, no one has ever dared to doubt that the four elements are simply regarded as golden rules.
Until Boyle came out of nowhere, he took out a piece of gold: "This thing is not composed of four elements!" ”
As soon as this statement came out, no one could refute it!
Because, this is an indisputable fact.
Boyle boldly guessed that the four elements must not be right, and there are definitely many other elements.
Since this is the case, then what are you waiting for, the other way around!
So, with a wave of his pen, he wrote a magnificent masterpiece "The Skeptical Chemist", overturning the four-element theory and shocking the whole world in one fell swoop.
At the same time, Boyle also defined the elements, and proposed that there are many kinds of elements, which can definitely not be simply listed, at least a complex table is required.
Sure enough, soon after, the peerless wizard Lavoisier drew up a table on the basis of Boyle, confirming Boyle's prophecy.
It is precisely because of this that Boyle is known as the "pioneer of chemical science", and everyone is unconvinced!
In addition, Boyle was actually a physics genius, and it was under his inspiration that his assistant Hooke wrote the famous book "Microscopy", which rivaled Newton for decades.
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