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François Arago

Also known as Francois Arago

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)

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François Arago was a French astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and politician. Born Dominique François Jean Arago Roig in Estagel in 1786, he was educated at the École polytechnique. He worked at the Bureau des Longitudes, the Paris Observatory, PSL University, and the École polytechnique, primarily in Paris. Arago served as a member of the French National Assembly and was a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the Société Philomathique de Paris, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He received the Copley Medal, the Rumford Medal, the Order of the Cross of July, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arago is associated with works such as *Annales de Chimie et de Physique*, *Alexandre Volta*, *Gaspard Monge*, *Caritat de Condorcet*, and *Ampère*. He spoke French and Catalan. Arago died in Paris in 1853 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. He had children, including Emmanuel Arago, and siblings Jacques Arago and Étienne Arago.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 27

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Annales de Chimie et de Physique
Alexandre Volta
Gaspard Monge
Caritat de Condorcet
Ampère

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: François
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Estagel
Place of death: Paris
Occupation: writer
Position held: member of the French National Assembly
Educated at: École polytechnique
Employer: École polytechnique
Political party: French Republican Party
Languages spoken: Catalan
Religion: atheism
Doctoral student: Yvon Villarceau
Field of work: astronomy
Image: François Arago par Ary Scheffer.jpg
Work location: Paris

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Commons category: François Arago
member of: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
date of birth: 1786-01-01
date of death: 1853-01-01
Commons Creator page: François Arago
birth name: Dominique François Jean Arago Roig
Commons gallery: François Arago
archives at: Archives nationales
writing language: French
P8168: Hitomi Nakamichi
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
relative: Alexis Thérèse Petit
place of detention: Mallorca

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to François Arago, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Atlas du Cosmos : Contenant les cartes Géographiques, Physiques, Thermiques, Climatologiques, Magnétiques, Geológiques, Botaniques, Agricoles Astronomiques, etc applicables a tous les ouvrages des sciences Physiques et Naturelles et particuliérement aux oeuvres D'Alexandre Houmboldt et de François Arago [Material cartográfico]

François Arago, letter

John Frederick William Herschel to François Arago

Astronomie populaire

Elementary lessons of Astronomy, spliced in the Royal Observatory of Paris, and consecrated to make this science available to all people.

Oeuvres complétes de François Arago

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Oeuvres complétes de François Arago

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Leçons d'astronomie

Oeuvres complétes de François Arago

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Encyclopedic overview

Dominique François Jean Arago (Catalan: Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago ( French: [fʁɑ̃swa aʁaɡo]; Catalan: Francesc Aragó, IPA: [fɾənˈsɛsk əɾəˈɣo]; 26 February 1786 – 2 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries, and politician.

Early life and work

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François Arago