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| | Edme Mariotte |
 | | The first volume of the Histoire et mémoires de l'Académie (1733) contains many original papers by him upon a great variety of physical subjects, such as the motion of fluids, the nature of color, the notes of the trumpet, the barometer, the fall of bodies, the recoil of guns, the freezing of water, etc. |
 | | His Essais de physique, four in number, of which the first three were published at Paris between 1676 and 1679, are his most important works, and form, together with a Traité de la percussion des corps, the first volume of the Oeuvres de Mariotte (2 vols., Leiden, 1717). |
 | | The fourth essay is a systematic treatment of the nature of color, with a description of many curious experiments and a discussion of the rainbow, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of color. |
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