Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Scientific Life in France at the Time of Arago.- The Life of Arago.- The Nature of Light.- The Velocity of Light.- The Birth of Electromagnetism.- The Measurement of the Earth.- Arago and the Paris Observatory.- Arago, Astronomer.- Arago, Geophysicist and Meteorologist.- Towards Applied Physics.- The Promoter of Science and Technique.- The Heritage of Arago.
This book has great potential utility for the historian of astronomy and amply succeeds in its effort to reorient Arago s legacy around his central role as astronomer while showing the breadth that the role could entail. this book can be thought of as a corrective to a historical memory that has written astronomy out of Arago s legacy. (Theresa Levitt, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48 (2), 2017)
François Arago is a fine, scholarly work, fully footnoted, with a detailed bibliography. The layout and exposition are clear, making it easy to locate specific researches. It is very well written and easy to read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned much from it, and warmly recommend it to everyone interested in early-19th-Century astronomy and physics. (Allan Chapman, The Observatory, Vol. 136 (1252), June, 2016)
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