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Arago and left
The images show simulated Arago spots in the shadow of a disc of varying diameter ( 4 mm, 2 mm, 1 mm – left to right ) at a distance of 1 m from the disc.
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye ( – ) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault ( Indre ) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. Arago.
In 1835, his left École d ' Application, and in 1838 became a professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris with the support of François Arago.

Arago and Paris
In 1840, François Arago, the director of the Paris Observatory, suggested to the French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier that he work on the topic of the planet Mercury's orbital motion around the Sun.
Towards the close of 1803 Arago entered the École Polytechnique, Paris, but apparently found the professors there incapable of imparting knowledge or maintaining discipline.
Meanwhile Simon had found means of communication with Paris, and on 6 February was reinforced by Eugène Pelletan, E. Arago and Garnier-Pages.
In 1847, a letter from François Arago, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences ( Paris ) announced his intention to write a biography of Franciscus Vieta.
* Arago et sa vie scientifique ( Paris: J. Hetzel, 1865 ) ( biography of Arago )
The astronomer François Arago took note of one of his papers written in 1852, which determined that the weather in his hometown was milder than that of Paris.
In the early 19th century, the Paris meridian was recalculated with greater precision by the astronomer François Arago, whose name now appears on the plaques or medallions tracing the route of the meridian through Paris ( see below ).
In 1994 the Arago Association and the city of Paris commissioned a Dutch conceptual artist, Jan Dibbets, to create a memorial to Arago.
Dominique Stezepfandts, a French conspiracy theorist, attacks the Arago medallions that supposedly trace the route of " an occult geographical line "; to him the Paris meridian is a " Masonic axis " or even " the heart of the Devil.

Arago and began
Showing decided military tastes, François Arago was sent to the municipal college of Perpignan, where he began to study mathematics in preparation for the entrance examination of the École Polytechnique.

Arago and along
In this Fresnel – Arago laws effect, the unguided oblique rays in the cylindrical geometry of the foveal blue cones, along with their distribution, produce an extrinsic dichroism.

Arago and .
In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.
* 1786 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician ( d. 1853 )
These assumptions have no obvious physical foundation but led to predictions which agreed with many experimental observations, including the Arago spot.
However, Arago, another member of the committee, performed the experiment and showed that the prediction was correct.
* The experiment of François Arago ( 1810 ), to confirm whether refraction, and thus the aberration of light, is influenced by Earth's motion.
* October 2 – François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician ( b. 1786 )
* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.
The rotation of the orientation of linearly polarized light was first observed in 1811 in quartz by French physicist François Jean Dominique Arago.
Arago spot experiment.
This bright spot is referred to as the Arago Spot or the Poisson spot.
In optics, an Arago spot, Fresnel bright spot, or Poisson spot is a bright point that appears at the center of a circular object's shadow due to Fresnel diffraction.
In astronomy, the Arago spot can be also easily observed in the strongly defocussed image of a star in a Newtonian telescope.
The presence of the Arago spot can be easily understood.
The original Arago spot experiment was carried out in the beginning of the 19th century and played an important role in the history of science.
As mentioned before the Arago spot is not easily observed in every-day situations, so it was only natural for Poisson to interpret it as an absurd result and that it should disprove Fresnel's theory.
However, the head of the committee, Dominique-François-Jean Arago, and who incidentally later became Prime Minister of France, decided to perform the experiment in more detail.
Furthermore, this means that the Arago spot is present even just a few obstacle diameters behind the disc.
Observation of the Arago spot with a conventional light source can be challenging.
This section summarizes how the various experimental parameters affect the visibility of the Arago spot.
For an ideal point source the intensity of the Arago spot equals that of the undisturbed wave front.
Only the width of the Arago spot intensity peak depends on the distances between source, circular object and screen, as well as the source's wavelength and the diameter of the circular object.
The main reason why the Arago spot is hard to observe in circular shadows from conventional light sources is that such light sources are bad approximations of point sources.

Biot and left
While the left hand side is similar to the Biot modulus.

Biot and Paris
Biot returned to Paris after they had determined the latitude of Formentera, the southernmost point to which they were to carry the survey.
Jean-Baptiste Biot was born in Paris, France on 21 April 1774 and died in Paris on 3 February 1862.
While in Paris, he came into contact with some of the most learned scholars of the age, such as Georges Cuvier, René Just Haüy, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jérôme Lalande, Gaspard Monge, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and many more.

Biot and began
Biot began his work on polarization to show that the results he was obtaining could appear only if light were made of corpuscles.

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