Babinet
Britishnoun
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Babinet states the evaporation from the surface of water at Paris to be twice as great as the precipitation.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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
A similar explanation was urged, and withdrawn, in the case of the Cock Lane ghost, and it does not appear that M. Babinet produced a ventriloquist who could do the trick.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
The method of Palissy, though, as I have said, similar in principle to that of Babinet, would be cheaper of execution, and, at the same time, more efficient.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
According to a general principle formulated by J. Babinet, the brightness of a lateral spectrum is not affected by an interchange of the transparent and opaque parts of the grating.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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