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On the basis of data from experiments regarding the compressibility of air at constant temperature collected by Boyle and interpreted by Towneley and Power, and of data from experiments at constant volume obtained and interpreted by Amontons and many later experimenters, especially Gay-Lussac and Dalton, by 1820 it was generally agreed that the pressure p, the volume V, and the temperature 6 of a body of aeriform fluid at rest obeyed the relation
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Dante, Inferno XVI, 31–33.
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Truesdell, C.A. (1980). The Common Inheritance. In: The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9444-0_2
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