Amontons

By the time they figured this out (and google it, the French scientist Amontons figured it out in 1700) they had already declared a punishment.

Amontons therefore argued that the zero of his thermometer would be that temperature at which the spring of the air in it was reduced to nothing.

Gay-Lussac's Law main Gay-Lussac's Law, Amontons' Law or the Pressure Law, was found by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809.

John Leslie (1766–1832) noted a weakness in the views of Amontons and Coulomb: If friction arises from a weight being drawn up the inclined plane of successive asperities, why then isn't it balanced through descending the opposite slope?

They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons (1699) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1785). citation Frictionless analysis Although each machine works differently mechanically, the way they function is similar mathematically.

This is distinct from the volume/temperature relationship of gas under constant pressure that Guillaume Amontons discovered 75 years earlier.