Pierre Perrault (scientist)
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For the film director, see Pierre Perrault.
For the science fiction writer, see Pierre Pairault.
Pierre Perrault (c. 1608, in Paris – 1680, in Paris) was a Receiver General of Finances for Paris and later a scientist who developed the concept of the hydrological cycle. He and Edme Mariotte were primarily responsible for making hydrology an experimental science.[1]