Provides the background and biography on Francois Arago, a dominant figure of French physics and astronomy in the first half of the 19th century, and the one whom many consider to be the first astroph
We are pleased to announce our new Catalan series within the Scripta Humanistica collection with this prestigious volume, L'Humanisme a la Corona d'Arago. The meaning and even the existence of a huma
On January 7th 1839, during a session of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, the physicist and politician Francois Arago presented a new process to reproduce images, using mechanical and chemical means