BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC MEN

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Author

Arago, F. (François), 1786-1853

Title

Biographies of distinguished scientific men. First series

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Produced by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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Q: Science

Subject

Scientists -- Biography

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eBook-No.

16775

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16775

Release Date

September 30, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BIOGRAPHIES — DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC MEN.
2. 2.ROBERT GRANT, Esq. , M.A., F.R.A.S. — RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
3. 3.TRANSLATORS' PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIVES
6. 6.DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC MEN.
7. 7.THE HISTORY OF MY YOUTH: — AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS ARAGO. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.BAILLY. — BIOGRAPHY READ AT THE PUBLIC SITTING OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, THE 26TH OF FEBRUARY, 1844. — INTRODUCTION. — INFANCY OF BAILLY.—HIS YOUTH.—HIS LITERARY ESSAYS.—HIS MATHEMATICAL STUDIES. — BAILLY BECOMES THE PUPIL OF LACAILLE.—HE IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM IN HIS ASTRONOMICAL LABOURS. — FOOTNOTE: — BAILLY A MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—HIS RESEARCHES ON JUPITER'S SATELLITES. — BAILLY'S LITERARY WORKS.—HIS BIOGRAPHIES OF CHARLES V.—OF LEIBNITZ—OF PETER CORNEILLE—OF MOLIÈRE. — DEBATES RELATIVE TO THE POST OF PERPETUAL SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. — HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY.—LETTERS ON THE ATLANTIS OF PLATO AND ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF ASIA. — FIRST INTERVIEW OF BAILLY WITH FRANKLIN.—HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE FRENCH ACADEMY IN 1783.—HIS RECEPTION.—DISCOURSE.—HIS RUPTURE WITH BUFFON. — REPORT ON ANIMAL MAGNETISM. — FOOTNOTES: — ELECTION OF BAILLY INTO THE ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS. — REPORT ON THE HOSPITALS. — REPORT ON THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. — BIOGRAPHIES OF COOK AND OF GRESSET. — ASSEMBLY OF THE NOTABLES.—BAILLY IS NAMED FIRST DEPUTY OF PARIS; AND SOON AFTER DEAN OR SENIOR OF THE DEPUTIES OF THE COMMUNES. — BAILLY BECOMES MAYOR OF PARIS.—SCARCITY.—MARAT DECLARES HIMSELF INIMICAL TO THE MAYOR.—EVENTS OF THE 6TH OF OCTOBER. — A GLANCE AT THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR OF BAILLY. — EXAMINATION OF BAILLY'S ADMINISTRATION AS MAYOR. — FOOTNOTE: — THE KING'S FLIGHT.—EVENTS ON THE CHAMP DE MARS. — BAILLY QUITS THE MAYORALTY THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER, 1791.—THE ESCHEVINS.—EXAMINATION OF THE REPROACHES THAT MIGHT BE ADDRESSED TO THE MAYOR. — FOOTNOTE: — BAILLY'S JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO NANTES, AND THEN FROM NANTES TO MÉLUN.— HIS ARREST IN THE LAST TOWN.—HE IS TRANSFERRED TO PARIS. — BAILLY IS CALLED AS A WITNESS IN THE TRIAL OF THE QUEEN.—HIS OWN TRIAL BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL.—HIS CONDEMNATION TO DEATH.—HIS EXECUTION.—IMAGINARY DETAILS ADDED BY ILL-INFORMED HISTORIANS TO WHAT THAT ODIOUS AND FRIGHTFUL EVENT ALREADY PRESENTED. — PORTRAIT OF BAILLY.—HIS WIFE.
9. 9.HERSCHEL. — FOOTNOTES: — CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL. [17] — FOOTNOTE: — IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF OBSERVATION. — FOOTNOTES: — LABOURS IN SIDEREAL ASTRONOMY. — LABOURS RELATIVE TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM. — OPTICAL LABOURS.
10. 10.LAPLACE. — FOOTNOTES: — APPENDIX. — (A.) — THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF NOTICE OF SOME OTHER INTERESTING RESULTS OF THE RESEARCHES OF LAPLACE WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN MENTIONED IN THE TEXT. — (B.)
11. 11.JOSEPH FOURIER. — BIOGRAPHY READ AT A PUBLIC ASSEMBLY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ON THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER, 1833. — FOOTNOTE: — BIRTH OF FOURIER.—HIS YOUTH. — MEMOIR ON THE RESOLUTION OF NUMERICAL EQUATIONS. — PART PLAYED BY FOURIER IN OUR REVOLUTION.—HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE CORPS OF PROFESSORS OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL AND THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.—EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. — FOURIER PREFECT OF L'ISÈRE. — MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF HEAT. — CENTRAL HEAT OF THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. — RETURN OF NAPOLEON FROM ELBA.—FOURIER PREFECT OF THE RHONE.—HIS NOMINATION TO THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF THE BOARD OF STATISTICS OF THE SEINE. — ENTRANCE OF FOURIER INTO THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—HIS ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF PERPETUAL SECRETARY.—HIS ADMISSION TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY. — FOOTNOTE: — CHARACTER OF FOURIER.—HIS DEATH. — THE END.
12. 12.A LIST OF BOOKS
13. 13.TICKNOR AND FIELDS. — Sir Walter Scott. — Thomas De Quincey. — Alfred Tennyson. — Charles Reade. — Henry W. Longfellow. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. — William Howitt. — Charles Kingsley. — Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Barry Cornwall. — James Russell Lowell. — Coventry Patmore. — Charles Sumner. — John G. Whittier. — Alexander Smith. — Bayard Taylor. — Edwin P. Whipple. — George S. Hillard. — Robert Browning. — Henry Giles. — William Motherwell. — Capt. Mayne Reid. — Goethe. — Rev. Charles Lowell. — Rev. F.W. Robertson. — R.H. Stoddard. — George Lunt. — Philip James Bailey. — Anna Mary Howitt. — Mary Russell Mitford. — Josiah Phillips Quincy. — Grace Greenwood. — Mrs. Crosland. — Mrs. Jameson. — Mrs. Mowatt. — Mrs. Howe. — Alice Cary. — Mrs. Eliza B. Lee. — Samuel Smiles. — Blanchard Jerrold. — Mrs. Judson. — Trelawny. — Charles Sprague. — Mrs. Lawrence. — G.A. Sala. — Thomas W. Parsons. — John G. Saxe. — Charles T. Brooks. — Samuel Bailey. — Tom Brown. — Leigh Hunt. — Gerald Massey. — C.W. Upham. — W.M. Thackeray. — Charles Mackay. — Henry Alford. — Richard Monckton Milnes. — George H. Boker. — Matthew Arnold. — W. Edmondstoune Aytoun. — Mrs. Rosa V. Johnson. — Henry T. Tuckerman. — William Mountford. — John Bowring. — Yriarte. — Phœbe Cary. — E. Foxton. — Paul H. Hayne. — Mrs. A.C. Lowell. — G.H. Lewes. — Lieut. Arnold. — Henry D. Thoreau. — Washington Allston. — Professor E.T. Channing. — Dr. Walter Charming. — Mrs. Horace Mann. — Horace and James Smith. — Christopher Wordsworth. — Henry Taylor. — Hufeland. — Dr. Jacob Bigelow. — Dr. John C. Warren. — James Prior. — Joseph T. Buckingham. — Bayle St. John. — Edmund Quincy. — Henry Morley. — Goldsmith. — C.A. Bartol. — Mrs. H.G. Otis. — Horace Mann. — Addison. — F.W.P. Greenwood. — S.T. Wallis. — Dr. William E. Coale. — Mrs. Gaskell. — Lord Dufferin. — Fanny Kemble. — Arago. — William Smith. — In Blue and Gold. — Illustrated Juvenile Books.

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