French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (1663-1705)
"Amontons" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Amontons (crater).
Guillaume Amontons
Guillaume Amontons, Luxembourg Garden, 1690
Born
31 August 1663 (1663-08-31)
Paris, France
Died
11 October 1705 (1705-10-12) (aged 42)
Paris, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Amontons' laws Hot air engine Thermodynamic temperature
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact. He is also known for his work on thermodynamics, the concept of absolute zero, and early engine design.
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GuillaumeAmontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying...
zero must be placed, was first addressed by the French physicist GuillaumeAmontons in 1703, in connection with his improvements in the air thermometer...
respect to the internal energy at the constant volume. 1702–1703: GuillaumeAmontons (1663–1705) published two papers that may be used to credit him as...
believing friction was an ethereal fluid. They were rediscovered by GuillaumeAmontons (1699) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1785)...
butter, then extrapolating 4 degrees upwards and downwards. 1695 — GuillaumeAmontons improved the thermometer. 1701 — Newton publishes anonymously a method...
These laws were rediscovered by GuillaumeAmontons in 1699 and became known as Amonton's three laws of dry friction. Amontons presented the nature of friction...
around 1787. The relationship had been anticipated by the work of GuillaumeAmontons in 1702. Gay-Lussac's law (1802) Denis Papin, an associate of Boyle's...
remained unpublished in his notebooks. They were rediscovered by GuillaumeAmontons (1699) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1785)...
published and the friction laws were not rediscovered until 1699 by GuillaumeAmontons, with whose name they are now usually associated. For this contribution...
ventured to build air engines, GuillaumeAmontons being the first one to build a working hot air engine in 1699. Amontons was followed in 1807 by George...
remained unpublished in his notebooks. They were rediscovered by GuillaumeAmontons (1699) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1785)...
simply air engines, have been recorded from as early as 1699. In 1699, GuillaumeAmontons (1663–1705) presented, to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris,...
where he proposed what are now commonly known as Amontons’ laws of friction after GuillaumeAmontons. Unless otherwise stated La Hire's works are in French...
16 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1654) October 11 – GuillaumeAmontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (born 1663) November...
most cases: First Law of Amontons The frictional force is directly proportional to the normal load. Second Law of Amontons Friction is independent of...
along with earlier innovators such as GuillaumeAmontons, who built the first working hot air engine in 1699. Amontons was later followed by Sir George Cayley...
between the pressure and the volume of gases. About the same time, GuillaumeAmontons started looking into temperature effects on gas. Various gas experiments...
(caloric) could be transferred, the point of absolute zero about which GuillaumeAmontons had speculated in 1702. "Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat"...
Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (first part). August 31 – GuillaumeAmontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (died 1705) December...
completely deaf at age 50 Mariko Takamura, deaf Japanese musician GuillaumeAmontons, French inventor and physicist Annie Jump Cannon, Harvard astronomer...
theory 1698 – Thomas Savery patents an early steam engine 1702 – GuillaumeAmontons introduces the concept of absolute zero, based on observations of...
to our understanding of friction. They include Leonardo da Vinci, GuillaumeAmontons, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Leonhard Euler, and Charles-Augustin...