Download or read book Fran ois Arago written by James Lequeux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Arago, the first to show in 1810 that the surface of the Sun and stars is made of incandescent gas and not solid or liquid, was a prominent physicist of the 19th century. He used his considerable influence to help Fresnel, Ampere and others develop their ideas and make themselves known. This book covers his personal contributions to physics, astronomy, geodesy and oceanography, which are far from negligible, but insufficiently known. Arago was also an important and influential political man who, for example, abolished slavery in the French colonies. One of the last humanists, he had a very broad culture and range of interests. In parallel to his biography, this title also covers the spectacular progresses of science at the time of Arago, especially in France: the birth of physical optics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Francois Arago’s life is a fascinating epic tale that reads as a novel.
Download or read book Letter of Fran ois Arago written to Louis de Freycinet written by François Arago and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MS Acc10.188 comprises the letter from François Arago written on behalf of the Academie des Sciences to Louis de Freycinet regarding the material collected on the L'Uranie expedition. The letter reports on a decision to deposit the material at the Academie under the care of Monsieur Cardot for the perusal of the various specialists working on the long-overdue report on the expedition. It is addressed to the house of Madame Pinon, the mother of Freycinet's wife Rose.
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Download or read book Oeuvres de Fran ois Arago written by Francois Arago and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1865 edition. Extrait: ...il l'a circonscrite, ne produira pas ce resultat. Le gouvernement ne veut maintenant travailler qu'au chemin de Belgique; il n'y aurait donc qu'une partie de la population, celle du nord de la France qui verrait le gouvernement dans toute sa splendeur; au Midi, ce ne serait plus le gouvernement, mais des compagnies particulieres. Ainsi, ce motif ne devait pas etre bien puissant pour le gouvernement, puisqu'il y a renonce pour la plus grande partie des populations. Il y a une consideration qu'on a formulee en ces termes: Le gouvernement serait a la remorque des compagnies. Non, Messieurs, le gouvernement ferait ce que les compagnies ne font pas. II y a des chemins qui peuvent avoir une immense utilite nationale, et pour lesquels des compagnies ne se presentent pas, le gouvernement ferait ces lignes-la; de plus, le gouvernement fera d'autres travaux. Est-ce que nos routes ordinaires ne sont pas, sur plusieurs points, dans un etat deplorable? (Mouvements divers.) Je crois apercevoir une denegation (Tres-bien!) je citerai des faits, je citerai une route royale, une des routes qui conduisent a Londres, ou la diligence a ete obligee d'abandonner un grand bourg et de passer a travers des jardins, et cela pendant six mois! Je citerai la route de Chalons a Sainte-Menehould, ou il est presque impossible de voyager l'hiver. M. Perignon. Rien n'est plus vrai 1 M. Arago. Ou l'on est oblige d'atteler dix chevaux aux diligences, ou les voitures versent sans que les carreaux se brisent dans la boue, tant la route est liquide. M. Roul. La route de...
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Download or read book History of the Principle of Interference of Light written by N. Kipnis and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies. Yet many is sues remain unclear, in particular, the reasons for rejecting Young's theory of light. It appears that further progress in the field requires a better grasp of the overall situation in optics and related subjects at the time and a more thorough study of every factor suggested to be of importance for the dispute. This book is intended to be a step in this direction. It examines the impact of the concept of interference of light on the development of the early nineteenth century optics in general, and the theory of light, in particular. This is not a his tory of the wave theory of light, nor is it a history of the debate on the nature of light in general: it covers only that part of the controversy which involved the concept of interference. Although the book deals with a number of scientists, scientific institutions, and journals, its main character is a scientific concept, the principle of interference. While discussing the reasons for accepting or rejecting this concept I have primarily focused on scientific factors, although in some cases the human factor is examined as well. The book is a revised Ph. D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1984) writ ten under Alan E. Shapiro.
Download or read book The Nature of Ball Lightning written by Stanley Singer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837 a comprehensive discussion of lightning appeared in the Annual of the French Bureau des Longitudes with a section on ball lightning which provided for the first time a readily available source in the scientific literature of the basic properties of this curious natural phenomenon. The author, Francois Arago, was the dominant influence in the French Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century, having become a member of that august body at the age of twenty-three. His attention alone doubtless served at that time to establish the validity of scientific interest in the problem. In addition his discussion covered some of the major questions associated with ball lightning in a nota bly clear-sighted, effective style. Later reconsideration of the same questions often provided no significant improvement over Arago's discussion. There followed a dauntless band of varying but always small number who attempted to account for an apparently simple natural occurrence, a ball of fire usually seen in thunderstorms, with the best knowledge that advancing science could provide. All attempts to deal with this phenomenon were in variably frustrated. The characteristics of ball lightning could be readily cataloged, but they firmly resisted both experimental reproduction and theo retical explanation. One may say that to this day there is no explanation accepted by a large number of scientists. Several investigators of great ability and considerable accomplishment in different fields of science, including Faraday, Kelvin, and Arrhenius, took note of the problem.
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