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Boyle's second list

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
10 September 2018
4 mins

Louisiane Ferlier looks at Robert Boyle's ideas on how science should be financed and methods to ensure best practice.

Dr Felicity Henderson
26 August 2010
2 mins

Over three hundred years ago, Robert Boyle FRS wrote a list of things that he hoped could be achieved through science, from the prolongation of life to 'varnishes perfumable by rubbing'.