ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS

dômēnēkˈ fräNswäˈ ärägōˈ, 1786–1853, French physicist and astronomer. He is noted for his discoveries in magnetism and optics as well as for his astronomical observations. Arago was an ardent supporter of the wave theory of light. In 1811 he invented the polariscope and later developed a polarimeter. His collected works (1854–62) include his well-known Astronomie populaire (4 vol.).

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The Poe Encyclopedia
Book by Frederick S. Frank, Anthony Magistrale; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Fantasy Literature, American--Encyclopedias, Poe, Edgar Allan--1809-1849--Encyclopedias
...Spectacles." Text : CWP, V , 180; X, 70. Arago, Dominique Francois Jean. 1786-1853 . The French astronomer and chemist Dominique Francois Jean Arago was the subject of one of the Sketches of Conspicuous...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...structures, with radial lineaments beyond that. Arago , Dominique Francois Jean 1786-1853 French scientist and statesman...solid and fluid surfaces to be distinguished, and Arago used it in several astronomical studies. One was...
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Sybil, Or, the Two Nations
Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila M. Smith; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Fiction
...and Fellow of the Royal Society. On Peels recommendation he became Dean of Westminster in 1845. 73 Arago. Dominique Francois Jean Arago 1786-1853 , French scientist and statesman. His achievements were mainly in the fields of astronomy...
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Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science
Book by Rene J. Dubos; Little, Brown, 1950
Subjects: Pasteur, Louis--1822-1895
...309 , 330 - 331 , 337 - 343 , 357 , 380 . Antisepsis, 48 , 128 , 151 , 245 , 300 - 302 . Appert, Francois, 10 . Arago, Dominique-Francois, 16 , 99 . Arbois, 21 - 22 , 24 , 28 , 37 , 45 , 51 , 68 , 143 - 144 , 146 , 184 , 332 , 349 , 391...
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Thomas Kuhn
Book by Thomas Nickles; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Kuhn, Thomas S, Science--Philosophy
...69 71, 85 , 105 6, 110 12, 132 , 233 5, 267 , 273 antirealism, see realism apparatus, see instruments Arago, Dominique Francois, 80 Aristotelian philosophy and science, 25 , 31 , 53 , 93 , 180 , 185 , 187 , 190 , 246 , 248 9, 252 , 255...
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journal articles on: Arago Dominique FranCois  - 5 results

 
 
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Joseph N. Nicollet and Great Plains Ethnohistory: Interfaces among Nineteenth-century French Science, Enlightenment, and Revolution
Journal article by Paul R. Picha; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 54, 2009
Subjects: Engineering research, Expeditions, Geography, Ideology, Native peoples
...Cuvier, Gay-Lussac, Humboldt, Lyell, and Arago. Bray (1969:40) has commented, "It is...to recall this cosmopolitan assemblage is Lake Arago." Curiously, Dominique Francois Arago, some fifteen years earlier, had condemned...
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The Ethic of the Spectator: The Citizenry of Photography
Journal article by Ariella Azoulay; Afterimage, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Photography--Criticism and interpretation, Photography--Forecasts and trends
...speech of the French physicist Francois Arago, delivered before the French...establishment. In his speech, Arago hoped to convince his colleagues...to protect and promote it. See Dominique Francois Arago, "Report," Classic Essays...
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Photographs: Whence Veracity?
Journal article by Michael Shapter; Afterimage, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Accuracy and precision--Evaluation, Camera obscuras--Usage, Daguerreotype--Usage, Daguerreotypes--Usage, Images, Photographic--Evaluation, Photographs--Evaluation, Photography--Evaluation, Technology--Influence
...Consensus in the English Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983). 16. Green-Lewis, 227. 17. Dominique Francois Arago, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de Academie des Science (Vol. 8) (1839), 270. 18. Patrick...
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The Image of Ganymede in France, 1730-1820: the Survival of a Homoerotic Myth
Journal article by Michael Preston Worley; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history, Mythology, Sculpture
...de Platon, traduites en francois, avec des remarques de...lIliade dHomere, traduite en francois, avec des remarques...Condorcet OConnor et M. F. Arago, Paris, 1847, VI, 66. 14. There were versions by Francois-Andre Vincent, Alcibiade...
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Light and Dark: the Daguerreotype and Art History
Journal article by Geoffrey Batchen; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Art exhibits, Art history, Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande (1789-1851), France, Inventors, Photography
...Quentin Bajac and Dominique Planchon-de Font...introduction by Daniel and Francois Reynauds essay...Jean-Domiuique Arago, who gave it to...daguerreotype by Antoine-Francois-Jean Claudel...Victor lingo, Jean-Francois Millet). Leon...catalogue entrv by Dominique Planchon-de Font...


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Augustin Fresnel and the Lens That Saved a Thousand Ships
Magazine article by Owen Gault; Sea Classics, Vol. 33, August 2000
...engineering post during Napoleons return from Elba in 1814. Nevertheless, Fresnels genius was recognized by Dominique Francois Arago, director of the Paris Observatory and secretary of the Academy of Sciences, who recruited the youthful mathematician...


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Arago, Dominique FranÇois
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS domenek fraNswa arago , 1786 1853, French physicist and astronomer. He is noted...magnetism and optics as well as for his astronomical observations. Arago was an ardent supporter of the wave theory of light. In 1811...


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