Article ID: CBB436801844

A history of astronomical optics in France (2022)

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In this paper, we explore the advances made in France in astronomical optics. They were quite important in the seventeenth century thanks to Mersenne, Auzout and Picard. Progress in the eighteenth century was less remarkable and many instruments had to be imported from England, but in the following century the developments were again significant thanks in particular to Arago, Foucault, Fizeau, Loewy and the Henry brothers, working with very competent instrument builders. The French school of optics flourished at the end of the nineteenth century and during the twentieth century, thanks to Fabry, his collaborators and successors, as illustrated by Perot, Chrétien, Lyot, Danjon, Paul, Couder, Courtès, Connes, Labeyrie, Baranne and Lemaitre, among others. However, from time to time there was a trend to build instruments that were too original and with little or no future, at the expense of more conventional but better-adapted instruments.

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Authors & Contributors
Patrick Grelet
Thomas Widemann
Pedro Augusto
Jean-Eudes Arlot
Wall, Wilson John
Jagdev Singh
Concepts
Astronomy
Astronomical observatories
Optics
Instruments, astronomical
Visual perception
Physics
Time Periods
Modern
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
20th century, late
19th century
Places
France
Italy
Europe
Madeira (Portugal)
Québec (Canada)
Pyrenees (France and Spain)
Institutions
Observatoire de Paris
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Mont-Blanc Observatory
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