The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . it may receive,as already has happened, the explanatory attention of learnedand clear-speaking editors and annotators, still there will alwaysstand the original text for the satisfaction of him who loves toread the original words of the Master. Who was Arago ? Arago, who died in 1853, after an eventful life, is celebratedfor the advancement which science received at his handsthrough his measurements of the Earth and the Planets, his 532 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. investigations into
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . it may receive,as already has happened, the explanatory attention of learnedand clear-speaking editors and annotators, still there will alwaysstand the original text for the satisfaction of him who loves toread the original words of the Master. Who was Arago ? Arago, who died in 1853, after an eventful life, is celebratedfor the advancement which science received at his handsthrough his measurements of the Earth and the Planets, his 532 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. investigations into the nature of light, and his discovery of thegeneration of electricity in the spinning of the Earth. Thehistory of Arago is a most interesting and romantic recital. Theexploits of his early life, growing out of his attempts to measurethe circle described by the Earths surface on a line from northto south, would fill a volume by themselves. When did Leverrier die ? Leverrier died in 1876. The Astronomical discovery whichhas made him famous, has been talked about in the paragraphconcerning the Planet
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