Biographies of distinguished scientific men.
By: By François Arago ... Tr. by Admiral W.H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and Robert Grant ...
Contributors: Smyth, W. H. 1788-1865, tr.; Powell, Baden, 1796-1860, joint tr.; Grant, Robert, 1814-1892, joint tr.; Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874.
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Scientists -- Biography.
Table of contents: title: 1st ser. The history of my youth. An autobiography of Francis Arago. Bailly. Herschel. Laplace. Joseph Fourier.; title: 2d ser. Carnot. Malus. Fresnel. Thomas Young. James Watt. Note by W. Fairbairn.