Edme Mariotte
French physicist, chemist, botanist and priest · France · Scientists · Lived 1620 to 1684 · aged 64
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Something wrong?Edme Mariotte was a French physicist and priest (abbé). He is particularly well known for formulating Boyle's law independently of Robert Boyle. Mariotte is also credited with designing the first Newton's cradle.
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![Établissement de l'Académie des sciences et foundation de l'observatoire 1666- Henri Testelin (detail). Mariotte probably 6th from right. Right of him Huygens and Cassini.[6]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Detail_Acad_Sciences1666.jpg/1280px-Detail_Acad_Sciences1666.jpg)
Établissement de l'Académie des sciences et foundation de l'observatoire 1666- Henri Testelin (detail). Mariotte probably 6th from right. Right of him Huygens and Cassini.[6]
Title page of "Discours de la nature de l'air" (1676) re-edition from 1717
Figure in a 1717 copy of volumes I of "Œuvres de M. Mariotte
Œuvres de M. Mariotte (1717)
Newton's cradleAbout this person
Country
France
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1620 to 1684 · aged 64
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