Letters. 1878.

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Letters. 1878.

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A.L.S. (1878 July 22, Ann Arbor) concerning contributions to a statue of Le Verrier, and A.L.S. (1878 Aug. 14, Ann Arbor) reporting the discovery of a planet Le Verrier had predicted, both to Fizeau.

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Hatson, James C.

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Dibner, Bern.

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Fizeau, H. (Hippolyte), 1819-1896

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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau was born on November 23, 1819, in Paris, France. He received his secondary school education at the Collège Stanislas with the intention of becoming a doctor. Illness forced Fizeau to discontinue classes and upon returning, he studied physics. Fizeau's early work included the improvement of the daguerreotype process. This allowed Fizeau and Léon Foucault to be the first to photograph the disk of the sun. Probably Fizeau's most significant contribution was the calcu...

Le Verrier, U.-J. (Urbain J.), 1811-1877

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