...in 1627, being the fourteenth child of the first Earl of Cork. On his tombstone he is described as "The Father of Chemistry and the Uncle of the Earl of Cork", and, indeed, in his Skyptical Chimist (1661), he assailed, and for the time overthrew, the idea of...

...philosophy was completed in the seventeenth century by Robert Boyle, of whom it has been said that " he was the father of chemistry and the uncle of the Earl of Cork." Pure substances, as Boyle pointed out, can be divided into two classes. In the one class are those...

...book Syntagma Philosophicum (1649), and by Robert Boyle (1627-91), who, it is said, was described as 'the Father of Chemistry and the Uncle of the Earl of Cork'. GASSENDI. Jung was interested only in the botanical aspects of atomism, so that his speculations need...