Babinet

British  

/ babɪnɛ /

noun

1. Jacques (ʒɑk) 1794–1872, French physicist, noted for his work on the diffraction of light

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Example Sentences

In closing this chapter, I cannot forego the pleasure of citing Count de Gasparin apropos of the learned negations of Babinet and his emulators of the Institute.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

Babinet quotes a French proverb, "Summer rain wets nothing," and explains it as meaning that the water of such rains is "almost totally taken up by evaporation."

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

We are fain to believe that M. Babinet himself has little doubt about his "impossibility."

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

Now this conclusion assumes, like that of M. Babinet, that all parts of the nebulous spheroid had equal angular velocities.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Her slow distracted gaze traveled from Glaud Burge to Jean le Prince, from Renot Babinet to François Bastarack, from Ambroise Tibedeaux along the line of stanch faces to Edelwald.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell