Robert Boyle
The institution Boyle helped found that was dedicated to scientific advancement.
What is The Royal Society?
The city where Huygens was born and died.
What is the Hague?
What Boyle created a practical definition for.
What is an element?
The two types of possible collisions of objects.
What are elastic and inelastic?
Boyle advocated for this to make science more empirical and reproducible.
What is the Scientific Method?
Theory stating that light was emitted from a source in all directions in a series of waves.
What is the wave theory of light?
According to Boyle's Law, this happens when pressure increases.
What is volume decreases?
What De Motu Corporum ex percussione generally translates to.
What is On the Motion of Bodies by Collision?
The formula for Boyle’s Law.
What is pV=k?
What Huygens’s advanced lenses and telescopes later influenced.
What is spectroscopy?
The three principles according to Paracelsians.
What are sulfur, mercury, and salt?
The main law discussed in this book.
What is the Law of Conservation of Momentum in Collision?
The university Boyle was invited to attend.
What is Oxford University?
What Huygens attempted to understand the physical interactions between.
What are particles and bodies?
What Boyle’s corpuscular theory helped with.
What is the discovery of atoms?
What the Law of Conservation of Momentum shows in the world today.
What is the collision of atoms?
Two scientists whose discoveries Boyle significantly impacted.
Who are Isaac Newton and Antoine Lavoisier?
The person whose theory Huygens wanted to disprove through experimentation.
Who is Rene Descartes?
The ideologies that Boyle mainly criticized in his book The Sceptical Chymist.
What are the Aristotelian and alchemical traditions?
What gas molecules are always doing.
What is elastically colliding?