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Biography
Born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland 25 January 1627.
As a child, Boyle was fostered to a local family, as were his elder brothers.
After spending over three years at Eton, Robert travelled abroad with a French tutor.
They visited Italy in 1641 and remained in Florence during the winter of that year studying the "paradoxes of the great star-gazer" Galileo Galilei, who was elderly but still living in 1641.