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| Mariotte, Edme |
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( d´m märyôt´) (KEY) , 1620?–1684, French physicist. His De la nature de l’air (1676) includes a statement of Boyle’s law (see gas laws), which he discovered independently and which is sometimes called Mariotte’s law in France. One of the founders of experimental physics, Mariotte investigated a wide range of phenomena, including the motion of bodies, sound, hydrodynamics, barometry, color, and vision. |
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