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Jacques Babinet
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Jacques Babinet (March 5, 1794 – October 21, 1872) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics.
Quotes
Ce qui est familier aux savants de profession a grand besoin d'être mis dans le domaine commun.
What is familiar to professional scientists highly needs to be placed in the public domain.
Études et lectures sur les sciences d'observation et leurs applications pratiques, by Jacques Babinet, published by Mallet-Bachelier (1858), [ p. x]. Quotes Jacques Babinet.
It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none.
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Category:1794 births
Category:1872 deaths
Category:Mathematicians from France
Category:Astronomers from France
Category:Catholics from France