François Arago

Standard Name: Arago, François
Used Form: Francois Arago

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace , Siméon Poisson , Louis Poinsot , Émile Mathieu , François Arago , Jean-Baptiste Biot , Alexis Bouvard , Georges Cuvier , Alexander von Humboldt , and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
19, 21-4
Publishing Mary Somerville
François Arago presented MS 's findings on the transmission of sunlight through various substances to the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
Arago published them in the society's Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie...

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Somerville, Mary et al. “Experiments on the Transmission of Chemical Rays of the Solar Spectrum across Different Areas. Excerpt from a letter of Mrs Somerville’s to Mr. Arago”. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, Vol.
3
, 1836, pp. 473-6.