Editing Robert Boyle (section)

==== Heat ====

Like English philosopher [[Francis Bacon]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bacon |first=Francis |author-link=Francis Bacon |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45988/pg45988-images.html |title=Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature |publisher=P. F. Collier & son. |year=1902 |pages=153, 156 |orig-year=1620}}</ref> [[Galileo Galilei]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adriaans |first=P. |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=E.N. |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=U. |title=Information |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/information/#Phys |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |edition=Summer 2024}}</ref> and Robert Hooke<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hooke |first=R. |author-link=Robert Hooke |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/15491-h.htm |title=Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon |publisher=Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society |year=1665 |page=12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hooke |first=R. |url=https://archive.org/details/b30454621_0001/page/n6/mode/1up |title=The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society |publisher=Publish'd by Richard Waller. Printed by Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, (Printers to the Royal Society) |year=1705 |orig-date=1681 |page=116}}</ref> had done before him, Boyle declared that heat consists of the motion of the invisible, constituent particles of objects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyle |first=R. |url=https://archive.org/details/experimentsnotes00boyl/page/n8/mode/1up |title=Experiments, notes, &c., about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: Among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum |publisher=Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis |year=1675 |p=61-62}}</ref>