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Word: arago (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Percival? Cronos? | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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