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The Astronomer Jules Janssen

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“C’est donc à la science de faire connaître à la société nouvelle sa grandeur et son utilité.”

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Notes

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    A graduate of both the Polytechnique and the École des Mines in Paris, Edmond Bour made many significant contributions to analysis, algebra, geometry and applied mechanics despite his early death.

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    We consider this worthy of mention, although we have not been able to establish which order it refers to.

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    Cited by Lockyer’s second wife and one of his daughters in their book that appeared in 1928: Life and Work of Sir Norman Lockyer.

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    Transcendent chemistry deals with the substances that exist in the wide expanse of the universe, and with the laws that they obey.

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    The draft stops here.

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    The corresponding donation in favor of the Institut is the subject of a notarized deed of 26 December 1886, and the definitive acceptance dates from 6 June 1887, AN, MC/ET/CVII/1977.

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Launay, F. (2012). Janssen and Communication. In: The Astronomer Jules Janssen. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 380. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6_14

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