Robert Boyle

The Sceptical Chymist Robert Boyle

The Sceptical Chymist

Or

Chymico-Physical

Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the SPAGYRIST'S PRINCIPLES Commonly call'd HYPOSTATICAL,

As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of ALCHYMISTS.

Whereunto is praemis'd Part of another Discourse

relating to the same Subject.

BY

The Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq;

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661. In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion. For these reasons Robert Boyle has been called the founder of modern chemistry by J. R. Partington.