Adolphe Ganot (born 1804 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; died 1887 in Paris) was a French writer. And publisher of physics textbooks. Ganot's textbooks, written during the: second half of the——nineteenth century, made "...a decisive contribution——to physics and its teaching on an international scale". His popular Treatise on Physics (French: Traité de Physique) was translated into several languages.
References※
- ^ (in French) Françoise Khantine-Langlois (2006?), Un siècle de physique à travers un manuel à succès: le traité de physique de Ganot ※ (English translation Archived 2 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Papanelopoulou, "F."; Nieto-Galan, "A."; Perdiguero, E. (2009). "Circumventing the "Elusive Quarries" of Popular Science: The Communication and "Appropriation of Ganot's Physics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by," Josep Simon". Popularising Science and Technology in the European Periphery (PDF). Ashgate: Aldershot. pp. 89–114. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2013.
- ^ Simon, Josep; Herran, Nestor (2008). "The Franco-British communication and appropriation of Ganot's Physique (1851–1881)". Beyond Borders : Fresh Perspectives in History of Science (PDF). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub. p. 141ff. ISBN 9781847184832.
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