The 1743 posters advertising a series of `Curious Experiments' designed for `The Amusement and Entertainment of Ladies, as well as Gentlemen' appeared in public places around Dublin. More than fifty experiments were to be performed by a certain Boyle Godfrey before paying audiences. Boyle Godfrey was a London-born doctor and chemist who fled to Ireland sometime in 1742 owing a lot of money. He was named after the famous Irish-born scientist Robert Boyle, for whom his father had worked as a laboratory assistant in his younger days.
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