But suddenly Britain was full of physicists – there was Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle – and even some people not called Robert, like Isaac Newton. 不过突然之间,英国就涌现出了很多物理学家,有罗伯特•虎克,罗伯特•波伊尔,当然还有一些不叫罗伯特的人,譬如艾萨克·牛顿。
C Robert Boyle suggested that some fire particles must have been trapped in the calx, thus making it heavier. c罗伯特·波义耳提议:在烧渣中必须限制某些火焰,这样就使得其更轻。
A Reappraisal of the Statement Boyle Established Chemistry as Science: Robert Boyle and the Seventeenth Century Chemistry 对波义耳把化学确立为科学的再认识&兼论波义耳与17世纪的化学
What Robert Boyle ( 1627-1691) gave in his Sceptical Chymist ( 1661) is not, as is commonly said, a modern definition of a chemical element, but a traditional definition of a chemical element. 波义耳在《怀疑派化学家》(1661年)一书中并没有象人们通常所说的那样给化学元素下了科学的定义,而是给出了当时人们所理解的传统元素定义。