Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.
Portrait by Charles de Steuben
Charles Babbage, Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation, 1825
François Arago
One of the 135 Arago medallions set along the Paris Meridian for 9.2 km (6 mi), in memorial to Arago and his work on the meridian and his measurements of the Earth.
Perpignan is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in Southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the scrublands of the Corbières massif. It is the centre of the Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole metropolitan area.
Image: Perpignan panoramio
Image: Quai Sébastien Vauban panoramio
Image: Castillet in Perpignan
Perpignan c. 1780