EDME See also:

• EDME MARIOTTE (c. 1620-1684)

MARIOTTE (c. 1620-1684)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French physicist, spent most of his See also:

• LIFE

life at See also:

• DIJON

Dijon, where he was See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior of St See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin sous See also:

• BEAUNE

Beaune . He was one of the first members of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences founded at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1666 . He died at Paris on the 12th of May 1684 . The first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of the Histoire et memoires de l'Academie (1733) contains many See also:

• ORIGINAL

original papers by him upon a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical subjects, such as the See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of fluids, the nature of See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, the notes of the See also:

• TRUMPET (Fr. trompette, clairon; Ger. ,Trompete, Klarino, Trummet; Ital. tromba, trombetta, clarino)
• TRUMPET, SPEAKING AND HEARING

trumpet, the See also:

• BAROMETER (from Gr. (3apoc, pressure, and µETpov, measure)

barometer, the fall of bodies, the recoil of guns, the freezing of See also:

• WATER

water, &c . His Essais de physique, four in number, of which the first three were published at Paris between 1676 and 1679, are his most important See also:

• WORKS

works, and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, together with a Traite de la percussion See also:

• DES

des See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps, the first volume of the tEuvres de See also:

• MARIOTTE, EDME (c. 1620-1684)

Mariotte (2 vols., See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, 1717) . The second of these essays (De La nature de lair) contains the statement of the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law that the volume of a See also:

• GAS

gas varies inversely as the pressure, which, though very generally called by the name of Mariotte, had been discovered in 166o by See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BOYLE
• BOYLE, JOHN J
• BOYLE, ROBERT (1627-1691)

Boyle . The See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay is a systematic treatment of the nature of colour, with a description of many curious experiments and a discussion of the See also:

• RAINBOW

rainbow, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of colour . The See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind spot is noted in a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper in the second volume of his collected works .