3 lives in this collection worked in pneumatics, from 1602 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Magdeburg engineer and burgomaster who invented the air pump and demonstrated atmospheric pressure with the Magdeburg hemispheres.
pneumatics, vacuum physics, electrostatics
Galileo's successor at the Medici court who invented the mercury barometer, found the law of efflux, and showed that an infinitely long solid can have finite volume.
geometry, mechanics, hydrodynamics
Anglo-Irish experimental philosopher who, with Robert Hooke's air pump, established the law of pressure and volume and argued for a corpuscular, experimental chemistry.
pneumatics, chemistry, natural philosophy