For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish scientist whose namesake gas law keeps temperature constant.
This scientist is the subject of the book The Aspiring Adept by Lawrence Principe. One work by this author is arranged as a dialogue between five friends, including the host Carneades and the judge Eleutherius. In another work, this thinker proposed a perpetual motion device called a "self-flowing flask" as a solution to the hydrostatic paradox. This author's most well-known treatise attacks both Paracelsus' three-principle theory and Aristotle's theory of the four elements in an attempt to address the (*) "Doubts and Paradoxes" of its title subject. While he was investigating what he termed a "spring of air," this author of The Skeptical Chemist concluded that pressure and volume were inversely proportional for a gas. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish scientist whose namesake gas law keeps temperature constant.
This scientist is the subject of the book The Aspiring Adept by Lawrence Principe.
Robert Boyle 