François Arago
A 19th Century French Humanist and Pioneer in Astrophysics
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 par…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-20723-0
- EAN: 9783319207230
- Produktnummer: 18914973
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 334 S.
- Originaltitel: François Arago, un savant généreux
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 22'574 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 167 schwarz-weiße und 7 farbige Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
- Reihenbandnummer: 421
Über den Autor
James Lequeux completed his PhD thesis in radioastronomy in 1962 and was an assistant, then associate, professor of physics and astronomy at Paris University until 1966. He was an Astronomer from 1966-1999 and an invited scientist at CalTech from 1968-1969. Dr. Lequeux was also the Director of the Marseilles Observatory from 1983-1988 and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics for 15 years. He retired in 1999 and then began work on the history of astronomy, a subject he presently writes about. Dr. Lequeux has published over 403 papers and five books, including The Interstellar Medium (Springer 2005) and Le Verrier: Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer (Springer 2013).
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