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  1. 1620-1684. French physicist and priest known
  2. for his recognition in 1676 of Boyle's law
  3. about the inverse relationship of volume and
  4. pressure in gases, formulated in 1672. He had
  5. earlier, in 1660, discovered the eye's blind
  6. spot.
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