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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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“A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.”

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Book:Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead

Source: Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead

“Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.”

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Book:Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt