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Biographies of distinguished scientific men

Archive Print Item: Early Science 3 1857/ARA

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Type of record: Book

Title: Biographies of distinguished scientific men

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 3 1857/ARA

Creator(s): Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853)

Additional creator(s): Fairbairn, William Sir, bart (1789-1874) (Other); Smyth, William Henry (1788-1865) (Other); Powell, Baden (1796-1860) (Other); Grant, Robert (1814-1892) (Other)

Related people: Fairbairn, William; Smyth, William Henry; Powell, Baden; Grant, Robert

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1857

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 607 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/248833

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015777129705181

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Contents: The history of my youth; an autobiography of François Arago -- Bailly -- Herschel -- Laplace -- Joseph Fourier -- Carnot -- Malus -- Fresnel -- Thomas Young -- James Watt -- Note by W. Fairbairn.

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