Word: arago
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Neptune, god of the sea, was chosen after Dominique Francois Arago (1786-1853), a leading French astronomer of his time had tried to get it called Leverrier, after Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, who calculated its existence...
...subsequent school career was one of high distinction. At nineteen he graduated from Harvard and for five years studied here and abroad. His study of astronomy was pursued under Gauss and in the scientific courses of Paris, also in the observatory there, then under the direction of Arago. On returning to America he was employed to determine astronomically the various geodetic stations of the U. S. coast survey. He was among the first to use electricity for the purpose of determining differences of longitude. He contributed constantly meanwhile to astronomical science, and did very much to arouse the now widespread...
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