Babinet
Britishnoun
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Babinet, M., 266; report on Angelica Cottin, 224-227; de Gasparin's criticisms of, 260-265.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
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 Herbert Spencer
A similar explanation was urged, and withdrawn, in the case of the Cock Lane ghost, and it does not appear that M. Babinet produced a ventriloquist who could do the trick.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
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 Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The recent article of M. Babinet in the Revue des Deux Mondes is a masterpiece in its way.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
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