Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 to December 31, 1691) was an Irish (al)chemist, inventor, natural philosopher, and physicist best known for Boyle's Law; a fundamental part of modern chemistry. During his time Boyle would pursue the transmutation of metals, going so far as to support the repeal of King Henry IV 1689 statute against the multipling silver, and gold. However, it was his study of liquids that has him most remembered as they lead him to the creation of the Self Flowing Flask, a perpetual motion machine based on the principle of siphoning, however the machine failed to create the perpetual motion he sought as the liquid input eventually equals out with hte output, thus, halting the liquid flow. He also worked in theology, and invested great funds in promoting the spread of Christianity though the East India Trade Company. Faith was very important to Boyle, who pioneered the study of race among human kind with a mongenist perspective, believing that no matter how diverse Humankind is, they all shared the same common ancestors; Adam, and Eve. His pioneering research was rediculed when he suggested that two caucasion people could give birth to individuals of different colored skin based on study of Albino's born to caucasion parents, but members of a different race. He used this observation to conclude that Adam and Eve had both been caucasion, and that beuty thus isn't inately judged by the color of one's skin, but by the symmetry of the body. His ideas in this regard where looked upon as either "disturbing" or "amusing" by members of the day's scientific community.