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.
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 