Talk:Robert Boyle
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Boyle's father, the Great Earl of Cork, was not noted as having scientific or philosophical inclinations, so it would be interesting to hear from anyone who knew more about Robert Boyle's father's influence upon Robert himself.
Sceptical or Skeptical
While this site upenn.edu (http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/science/boyle/chymist/) shows an original with the c, the spelling of chymist would suggest that the spelling either need remain the same, or modernized, (which I assume is what is involved in the next external link.
A google test show that k is the most used one, and the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=5808457&dopt=Abstract) shows this listing (for what that's worth).
While dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/) lists c as a variant of k, the OED lists otherwise.