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> Meanwhile, how many people can name an achievement of Robert Boyle, who actually was the greatest English scientist before Newton?

Surely Boyle's law is well taught in high schools?




At my high school it was kind of lumped into the Ideal Gas Law; Boyle's name didn't get much mention.


It certainly used to be!




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