Author:Dominique François Jean Arago

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Dominique François Jean Arago
(1786–1853)

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French astronomer and scientific biographer

Works

Oeuvres complètes in 17 volumes
- Astronomie populaire, in 4 vols.
- Notices biographiques, in 3 vols.
- Indices scientifiques, in 5 vols.
- Voyages scientifiques, in 1 vol.
- Grimoires scientifiques, in 2 vols.
- Mélanges, in 1 vol.
- Tables analytiques et documents importants (with portrait), in 1 vol.

Translated

On Arago's Magnetic phenomena (1832) external source
Treatise on Comets
Euloge of James Watt
Life of James Watt (1839) external source
Astronomy for schools (1841) external source
Popular Lectures on Astronomy (1845) external source
Arago's Autography
Arago's Meteorological Essays
Biographies of Scientific Men (1859) vol 1, vol 2
"Joseph Fourier" Smithsonian Report (1871)
"Eulogy on Laplace" Translated by B. Powell, Smithsonian Report (1874)

Works about Arago

"Sketch of Francois Arago" in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)
"Arago, Dominique François Jean," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Arago, Francois Jean Dominique," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Correspondance d'Alexandre de Humboldt avec F. Arago (1907)
"Arago, Dominique François Jean," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (pp. 23−24), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)
"Arago, François," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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