Engraving depicting Pouillet's Pyrheliometer, used to measure the amount of solar heat reaching the earth's surface. Claude Pouillet (1790-1868) a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Sciences. Dated 19th Century

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