Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French physicist, c1783. Artist: Simon Charles Miger

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Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French physicist, c1783. Print celebrating the first ascent in a hydrogen-balloon, made by Charles (1746-1823) from the Tuileries, Paris, on 1 December 1783. He discovered the connection between the expansion of gases and rise in temperature (Charles's Law).

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