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Chasles

American  
[shahl] / ʃɑl /

noun

  1. Michel 1793–1880, French mathematician.


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A volume of brilliant French criticism will be published in a few days by Charles Scribner, under the title of Anglo-American Literature and Manners, by Philarete Chasles, Professor in the College of France.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

M. Chasles has no taste for old truths; he prefers much some kind of paradox which is now a truth and now a lie.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Cauchy, 294 Chasles, 28, 43 Clapeyron, 101, 112 Clausius, 114 et seq.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

Chasles, who sixteen years ago was delighting the patrons of the Op�ra-Comique with her charming dancing.

From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl

Among the other contributors are Philarete Chasles, an excellent classical scholar, and a man well acquainted with English literature; Cuvillier Fleury, unquestionably a man of taste and talent; and the celebrated Jules Janin.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various