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'''Henry Power''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (1623–1668) was an English physician and experimenter, one of the first elected [[fellows of the Royal Society]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
Power matriculated as a pensioner of [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], in 1641 and graduated a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1644.<ref>{{acad|id=PWR641H|name=Power, Henry}}</ref> He became a regular correspondent of [[Sir Thomas Browne]], who had lived in [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] from 1633 to 1635 on scientific subjects. He graduated a [[Master of Arts]] in 1648 and a [[Doctor of Medicine]] in {{Circa|1655}}. It appears that he practised his profession at Halifax for some time, but he eventually moved to [[New Hall Elland|New Hall]], near [[Elland]]. Power was elected and admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 1 July 1663, he and [[Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet]], being the first elected members.<br />
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He died at New Hall on 23 December 1668 and was buried in the All Saints' Church, Wakefield, with a brass plate to his memory, with a [[Latin]] inscription, on the floor in the middle chancel.<ref name = DNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Power, Henry}}</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
His only published work is 'Experimental Philosophy'.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1179/amb.1967.14.3.150 |title=Henry Power's Experimental Philosophy |date=1967 |last1=Webster |first1=C. |journal=[[Ambix]] |volume=14 |number=3 |pages=150–78 |publisher=Taylor and Francis}}</ref> Its three books deal respectively with [[microscopy]] and [[corpuscularian]] theory; the experiments of [[Evangelista Torricelli]]; and the [[vacuum]], and refutations proposed for the works of the Jesuit [[Jacobus Grandamicus]] (Jacques Grandami, 1588–1672).<ref name = DNB/><ref>[[Andrew Pyle (philosopher)|Andrew Pyle]] (editor), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article on Power, pp. 667–670.</ref><br />
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== Boyle's law ==<br />
In a series of experiments with his family friend, [[Richard Towneley]], Henry Power discovered the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas that later became known as [[Boyle's law]]. This relationship was outlined in "Experimental Philosophy". However, many may argue nevertheless that a prepublication manuscript of Experimental Philosophy cited the hypothesis as the sole work of Mr. Richard Towneley. Robert Boyle's mention of the theory preceded the publication of Experimental Philosophy by one year, which, combined with Boyle's promotion of the idea and his significant status as an aristocratic [[scientist]], ensured the theory would be known as "Boyle's law". Boyle attributed Towneley as the sole researcher, ensuring that Power's contributions were all but lost to history.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Webster |first=Charles |year=1965 |title=The Discovery of Boyle's Law, and the Concept of the Elasticity of Air in the Seventeenth Century. |journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer-Verlag]] |doi=10.1007/BF00324880 <!--|js40049658 unknown number--> |issn=1432-0657 |oclc=39966759 |volume=2 |number=6 |pages=441–502|s2cid=120414681 }}</ref><br />
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== In popular culture ==<br />
Henry Power and his contributions were documented by [[Crash Course (web series)|Crash Course]] Chemistry and [[Hank Green]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUS1K7xu30&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr&index=13 |title=The Ideal Gas Law: Crash Course Chemistry #12 |date=2013-05-07 |last=CrashCourse |access-date=2024-10-19 |via=YouTube}}</ref> The section on Boyle's law contained the sentence "Written By Hank Green, savior of high school children" until July 2017. <br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |title=Experimental Philosophy, in three books containing new experiments: Microscopical, Mercurial and Magnetic |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/b30331171/page/n9/mode/2up |orig-date=5 August 1663 |date=1664 |first=Henry |last=Power |publisher= Martin and Allestry |ref=none}}<br />
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