Babinet
Britishnoun
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Babinet quotes a French proverb: "Summer rain wets nothing," and explains it by saying that at that season the rainwater is "almost entirely carried off by evaporation."
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
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
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
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 Flammarion, Camille
A similar explanation was urged, and withdrawn, in the case of the Cock Lane ghost, and it does not appear that M. Babinet produced a ventriloquist who could do the trick.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 Lang, Andrew
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