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EDME See also: life at See also: Dijon, where he was See also: prior of St See also: Martin sous
See also: Beaune
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He was one of the first members of the See also: Academy of Sciences founded at See also: Paris in 1666
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He died at Paris on the 12th of May 1684
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The first See also: volume of the Histoire et memoires de l'Academie (1733) contains many See also: original papers by him upon a See also: great variety of See also: physical subjects, such as the motion of fluids, the nature of colour, the notes of the See also: trumpet, the barometer, the fall of bodies, the recoil of guns, the freezing of See also: water, &c
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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, and See also: form, together with a Traite de la percussion See also: des corps, the first volume of the tEuvres de See also: Mariotte (2 vols., See also: Leiden, 1717)
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The second of these essays (De La nature de lair) contains the statement of the See also: law that the volume of a See also: gas varies inversely as the pressure, which, though very generally called by the name of Mariotte, had been discovered in 166o by Robert Boyle
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The See also: fourth 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, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of colour
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The See also: discovery of the See also: blind spot is noted in a See also: short paper in the second volume of his collected works
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