Talk:Guillaume Amontons

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Is the 1695 citation complete? Compare with the French article. — DIV (128.250.204.118 06:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC))[reply]

This page stated that Amontons discovered Graham's law. That would place him as the earliest formulator of the kinetic theory, decades before Daniel Bernoulli who is credited most everywhere. I can find no mention of Amontons having made any such discovery but he is credited with discovering Charles's law^[1]. I have made the correction.

References

1. ^ Cardwell, D.S.L (1971) From Watt to Clausius, pp18-19

The article on Friction has all the same info on these laws. I propose these details be removed. If anyone has info on Amontons's experimental or theoretical process for discovering them, or on their publication, reception, etc., I would think those more appropriate for a biography.Dfeuer (talk) 17:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the material that belongs at friction. RJFJR (talk) 16:13, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]