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Amontons, Guillaume
(b.
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Paris, France, 31 August 1663; d. Paris, 11 October 1705)
physics.
Amontons’s father was a lawyer from Normandy who settled in Paris. The boy became almost deaf during adolescence, and his interest then turned toward mechanics.
After vain efforts to develop a perpetual motion machine, he decided, despite his family’s opposition, to study physical sciences and mathematics. After studying drawing, surveying, and architecture, he was employed on various public works projects that gave him practical knowledge of applied mechanics.
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Later he studied celestial mechanics and applied himself to the improvement of hygrometers, barometers, and thermometers.
His first scientific production was a hygrometer in 1687. The apparatus consisted of a ball of beechwood, horn, or leather filled with mercury; it varied in size according to the humidity of the atmosphere.
In 1688 he developed his shortened barometer, composed of several parallel tubes connected alternate