روبيرت بويل (1627 - 1691) عالم ايرلندى من ابرز اللى اشتغلوا فى مجال الغازات وخواصها، ووضع قانون يعرف باسمه قانون بويل. و قام بفصل الميثانول من بين المنتجات الناتجة عن التقطير الاتلافي للخشب سنة 1661. فيه فايلات فى ويكيميديا كومونز عن: روبرت بويل Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. Readable versions of Excellence of the mechanical hypothesis and Origin of forms and qualities Robert Boyle Project, Birkbeck, University of London The Boyle's Educational Foundation Archived 2009-01-20 at the Wayback Machine. Summary juxtaposition of Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist and his The Christian Virtuoso The Relationship between Science and Scripture in the Thought of Robert Boyle Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest : Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals, Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-05082-1