Question: Why is Robert Boyle known as the founding father of chemistry?
About the article "Chemistry", section "Chemistry as science".

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  Robert Boyle 1661 Foundations.
The Sceptical Chymist.
Description: Boyle, in the form of a dialogue, argued that chemical theories should be firmly grounded in experiment before their acceptance, and for the foundation of chemistry as a science separate from medicine and alchemy.
Importance: Topic Creator, Influence.
Boyle, in this book, became the first to argue that experiment should form the basis of all theory, a common practice in chemistry today.
He also expounded on a rudimentary atomic theory and the existence of chemical elements beyond the classic earth, fire, air, and water.
He is seen as the father of chemistry, and this is his most celebrated book, with continued relevance to the present day. 
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Robert Boyle, FRS, was an Irish 17th-century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor.
Born in Lismore County Waterford, Ireland, he was also noted for his writings in theology.
Although his research clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.
Among his works, "The Sceptical Chymist" is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. 
By his second wife, Catherine Fenton, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton and his wife Alice Weston, the 1st Earl of Cork had the following issue: Roger Boyle (1 August 1606, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland–10 October 1615, Deptford, Kent, England, where he was buried).
Lady Alice Boyle (1607–1667), married David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, then after his death, married John Barry, of Liscarroll, co Cork, Ireland Lady Sarah Boyle (1609–1633), married Sir Thomas Moore, then after his death married Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby Lady Lettice Boyle (1610–1657), married Colonel George Goring, Lord Goring Lady Joan Boyle (1611–1657), married George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare ("the Fairy Earl") Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and 1st Earl of Burlington (1612–1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (1660–1695).
Lady Katherine Boyle (1615–1691), married Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh Hon.
Geoffrey Boyle Lady Dorothy Boyle, married Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnam and was the mother of Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky (1619–1642), succeeded under special remainder by his older brother Richard Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1621–1679) Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon Lady Mary Boyle, married Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick Hon.
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), author of "The Sceptical Chymist"; considered to be the father of modern chemistry Lady Margaret Boyle Boyle erected an elaborate monument to himself, his wives, his mother and children in The Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal, County Cork and there is a similar but much larger Boyle monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. 
 1605:Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The Proficience and Advancement of Learning", which contains a description of what would later be known as the scientific method.
1605:Michal Sedziwój publishes the alchemical treatise "A New Light of Alchemy" which proposed the existence of the "food of life" within air, much later recognized as oxygen.
1615:Jean Beguin publishes the "Tyrocinium Chymicum", an early chemistry textbook, and in it draws the first-ever chemical equation.
1637:René Descartes publishes "Discours de la méthode", which contains an outline of the scientific method.
1648:Posthumous publication of the book "Ortus medicinae" by Jan Baptist van Helmont, which is cited by some as a major transitional work between alchemy and chemistry, and as an important influence on Robert Boyle.
The book contains the results of numerous experiments and establishes an early version of the law of conservation of mass.</onlyinclude> 1661:Robert Boyle publishes "The Sceptical Chymist", a treatise on the distinction between chemistry and alchemy.
It contains some of the earliest modern ideas of atoms, molecules, and chemical reaction, and marks the beginning of the history of modern chemistry.
1662:Robert Boyle proposes Boyle's law, an experimentally based description of the behavior of gases, specifically the relationship between pressure and volume.
1735:Swedish chemist Georg Brandt analyzes a dark blue pigment found in copper ore. Brandt demonstrated that the pigment contained a new element, later named cobalt.
See also: (1) G. Brandt (1746) "Rön och anmärkningar angäende en synnerlig färg — cobolt" (Observations and remarks concerning an extraordinary pigment — cobalt), "Kongliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar" (Transactions of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science), vol.7, pages 119–130; (2) G. Brandt (1748) "Cobalti nova species examinata et descripta" (Cobalt, a new element examined and described), "Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis" (Journal of the Royal Scientific Society of Uppsala), 1st series, vol.
3, pages 33–41; (3) James L. Marshall and Virginia R. Marshall (Spring 2003) "Rediscovery of the Elements: Riddarhyttan, Sweden," "The Hexagon" (official journal of the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity of chemists), vol.
94, no.
1, pages 3–8.</ref> 1754:Joseph Black isolates carbon dioxide, which he called "fixed air".
1757:Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, while investigating arsenic compounds, creates Cadet's fuming liquid, later discovered to be cacodyl oxide, considered to be the first synthetic organometallic compound.
1758:Joseph Black formulates the concept of latent heat to explain the thermochemistry of phase changes.
1766:Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen as a colorless, odourless gas that burns and can form an explosive mixture with air.
1773–1774: Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley independently isolate oxygen, called by Priestley "dephlogisticated air" and Scheele "fire air".
1778:Antoine Lavoisier, considered "The father of modern chemistry", recognizes and names oxygen, and recognizes its importance and role in combustion.
1787:Antoine Lavoisier publishes "Méthode de nomenclature chimique", the first modern system of chemical nomenclature.
1787:Jacques Charles proposes Charles's law, a corollary of Boyle's law, describes relationship between temperature and volume of a gas.
1789:Antoine Lavoisier publishes "Traité Élémentaire de Chimie", the first modern chemistry textbook.
It is a complete survey of (at that time) modern chemistry, including the first concise definition of the law of conservation of mass, and thus also represents the founding of the discipline of stoichiometry or quantitative chemical analysis.
1797:Joseph Proust proposes the law of definite proportions, which states that elements always combine in small, whole number ratios to form compounds.
1800:Alessandro Volta devises the first chemical battery, thereby founding the discipline of electrochemistry.