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

Springs, artificial, proposed by Palissy, 447; by Babinet, 448.

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

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.

The learned gentlemen, Faraday, Babinet, and others, do not limit themselves to objections derived from nascent or unconscious movements, small causes producing great effects.

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

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