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Former Prime Minister of the French Republic

François Arago was a prominent French politician, astronomer, and mathematician. Born on February 26, 1786, and died on October 2, 1853, he was active during the French Revolution and later served as a counselor to Napoleon I. Arago made significant contributions to astronomy, particularly in his study of the dark spots on the moon's surface.

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“In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.”

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Book:Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

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“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant