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NEARLY three centuries ago Robert Boyle came to Oxford aglow with zeal for the pursuit of ochemistry, a study which he was the first to establish as a science and to endow with the title of a philosophy. His work, it appears, aroused bitter animosity; he was attacked in the University pulpit for his theories and their corrupting influence; above all, indignation was felt that he* a gentleman by birth and position, should concern himself with low mechanical arts.2
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SMITHELLS, A. The Universities and Technological Education1. Nature 107, 695–697 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107695a0
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