biography
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| (1620–84)
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| biography:
| Physicist and priest, born in Dijon, E France. One of the earliest members of the Academy of Sciences, he wrote on percussion, air and its pressure, the movements of fluid bodies and of pendulums, and colours. He coined the word barometer in his Discours de la nature de l'air (1676) in which he independently stated Boyle's law of 1662 (long known in France as Mariotte's law). |
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