Arago's

Arago's Prediction: Design theory will not influence Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies (except as a phenomenon of ˜public controversy '), Literary Criticism, etc. because it is focussed primarily on Natural Science.

A Post-Wedge World 2005

I had no notion of metallic objects that might have been shaped or molded by means other than crystallization, until I came to Arago's account of these occurrences (_OEuvres_, 11-644).

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

The following table is extracted from Arago's tract on Comets, and represents the variations of the diameter of Encke's comet at different distances from the sun, -- the radius of the orbis magnus being taken as unity.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

Following Arago's suggestion he used the rotating mirror of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

He now became a member of the Academy of Sciences, in 1852 was made a senator, and after Arago's death (1853) was appointed director of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Beginning with Arago's and Faraday's discoveries he developed by ingenious experiments our knowledge of electrostatics, electro-dynamics, induced currents, and the like, but his greatest achievements however were in the field of electro-physiology, with frogs, torpedoes, and the like.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Arago's treatise was soon translated into all the European languages after which time the appearance of the comet (1456) is hardly ever mentioned, but this historical lie must be repeated in various shapes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

In his famous paper, read before the Royal Society in 1831, Faraday describes the method by which he first demonstrated electro-magnetic induction, and then explained the phenomenon of Arago's revolving disk.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

Some four years after Arago's discovery, Sturgeon made the first "electro-magnet" by winding a soft iron core with wire through which a current of electricity was passed.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

A few years later he became interested, like all the scientists of the time, in Arago's experiment of rotating a copper disk underneath a suspended compass - needle.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904