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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Marc-Auguste_PictetMarc-Auguste Pictet - Wikipedia

    Marc-Auguste Pictet (French:; 23 July 1752 – 19 April 1825) was a Swiss scientific journalist and experimental natural philosopher. Pictet's main contribution to learning was his editing of the scientific section of the Bibliothèque Britannique (1796-1815), a publication devoted to the diffusion on the Continent of knowledge and arts ...

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  3. pubs.aip.org › aapt › ajpPictet’s experiment: The apparent radiation and reflection of ...

    Aug 1, 1985 · Pictet’s experiment: The apparent radiation and reflection of cold. Towards the end of the eighteenth century it was discovered by Marc‐Auguste Pictet of Geneva that cold emanations from a flask of snow could be reflected and focused by mirrors in the same way as the emanations from a heated object.

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    Pictet's experiment is the demonstration of the reflection of heat and the apparent reflection of cold in a series of experiments performed in 1790 (reported in English in 1791 in An Essay on Fire) by Marc-Auguste Pictet—ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun. The apparatus for most of the experiments used ...

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    Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752--1825) studied at the Geneva Academy and in England, especially astronomy. He was enthusiastic about meteorology and accompanied Professor Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740--1799) on his expeditions concerning hypsometry (barometric altitude measurement).

  7. spark.iop.org › reflecting-heatReflecting on heat | IOPSpark

    Energy and Thermal Physics. Reflecting on heat. Stories from Physics for 11-14 14-16. Marc-Auguste Pictet was a Swiss editor of the Bibliothèque Britannique, a publication that shared scientific knowledge developed in Great Britain with a continental audience. In addition to his journalism, Pictet carried out his own scientific studies.

  8. www.wikiwand.com › en › Marc-Auguste_PictetMarc-Auguste Pictet - Wikiwand

    Marc-Auguste Pictet was a Swiss scientific journalist and experimental natural philosopher.

  9. www.encyclopedia.com › pictet-marc-augustePictet, Marc-Auguste | Encyclopedia.com

    PICTET, MARC-AUGUSTE (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 23 July 1752; d. Geneva, 19 April 1825) physics. The son of Charles Pictet and Marie Dunant, Pictet came of an old and respected Genevan family.

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