Babinet
Britishnoun
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"I know she is out of Fort St. John at this minute," insisted Renot Babinet.
From The Lady of Fort St. John by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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 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.
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
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 Marsh, George P.
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