| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The French scientist Edme Mariotte (1620-84) is often called the father of French hydraulics because of the breadth of his experimentation; this included such matters as wind and water pressure and the elasticity of the air, a quality which we usually associate with the name of the Englishman Robert Boyle (1627-91) [12] whereas the latter appears to have coined the word hydraulics, in France Boyle
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