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Mount Fizeau is located on New Zealand's subantarctic Campbell Island. It was named by members of the 1874 French astronomical expedition to view the Transit of Venus, which set up on the island at Venus Bay. Mount Fizeau rises to a height of 497 metres (1655 ft), and is the second-highest point on the island.

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Mount Fizeau

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Mount Fizeau is located on New Zealand's subantarctic Campbell Island. It was named by members of the 1874 French astronomical expedition to view the Transit...

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Michelson stellar interferometer

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in 1890, following a suggestion by Hippolyte Fizeau. The first such interferometer built was at the Mount Wilson observatory, making use of its 100-inch...

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1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Campbell Island

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Point Filhol Peak Garden Cove Jacquemart Island Mount Azimuth Mount Dumas Mount Faye Mount Fizeau Mount Paris Puiseux Peak Venus Bay Yvon Villarceau Peak...

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Interferometry

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environment. When the flats are ready for sale, they will typically be mounted in a Fizeau interferometer for formal testing and certification. Fabry-Pérot...

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Light

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measurement of the speed of light was performed in Europe by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. Fizeau directed a beam of light at a mirror several kilometers away. A...

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Sagnac effect

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of light propagation cannot account for the Fizeau effect. (By 1900 Lorentz could account for the Fizeau effect, but by that time his theory had evolved...

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Speed of light

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working principle behind experiments by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. The setup as used by Fizeau consists of a beam of light directed at a mirror...

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Timeline of luminiferous aether

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becomes a champion of the dragging theory.[citation needed] 1851 – Armand Fizeau carries out his famous experiment with light travelling through moving water...

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Large Binocular Telescope

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the combined focus (in commissioning). LBTI/LMIRCAM – 2.9 to 5.2 micron Fizeau imaging and medium resolution grism spectroscopy at the combined focus....

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Induction coil

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Johann Philipp Wagner (1839), and Christian Ernst Neeff (1847). Hippolyte Fizeau (1853) introduced the use of the quenching capacitor. Heinrich Ruhmkorff...

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Astrophotography

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1845 daguerreotype by the French physicists Léon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau. A failed attempt to obtain a photograph of a Total Eclipse of the Sun was...

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Timeline of special relativity and the speed of light

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the case with: Michelson and Morley (1886) repeating the experiment of Fizeau (1851), contradicting Michelson’s interpretation of his 1881 experiment;...

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History of the telescope

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the HEGRA (1987), STACEE (2001), HESS (2003), and MAGIC (2004). In 1868, Fizeau noted that the purpose of the arrangement of mirrors or glass lenses in...

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DC motor

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that consists of two ball bearing-type bearings, with the inner races mounted on a common conductive shaft, and the outer races connected to a high current...

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Electricity

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Stress–energy tensor Scientists Ampère Biot Coulomb Davy Einstein Faraday Fizeau Gauss Heaviside Helmholtz Henry Hertz Hopkinson Jefimenko Joule Kelvin Kirchhoff...

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Betelgeuse

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various solutions. Astronomical interferometry, first conceived by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1868, was the seminal concept that has enabled major improvements in...

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Oliver Heaviside

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Stress–energy tensor Scientists Ampère Biot Coulomb Davy Einstein Faraday Fizeau Gauss Heaviside Helmholtz Henry Hertz Hopkinson Jefimenko Joule Kelvin Kirchhoff...

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List of last survivors of historical events

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Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 3 May 2023. Reid, Chip (31 October 2016). "Mount Rushmore worker looks back on project, 75 years later". CBS News. Retrieved...

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Spacetime

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advent of sensitive scientific measurements in the mid-1800s, such as the Fizeau experiment and the Michelson–Morley experiment, that puzzling discrepancies...

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Daguerreotype

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gold toning, was an addition to Daguerre's process introduced by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1840. It soon became part of the standard procedure. To give the steely...

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George Francis FitzGerald

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after him, as is a building at TCD. FitzGerald was born at No. 19, Lower Mount Street in Dublin on 3 August 1851 to the Reverend William FitzGerald and...

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Metamaterial

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Stress–energy tensor Scientists Ampère Biot Coulomb Davy Einstein Faraday Fizeau Gauss Heaviside Helmholtz Henry Hertz Hopkinson Jefimenko Joule Kelvin Kirchhoff...

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Gravitational time dilation

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altitude of 9,000 meters above sea level, such as perhaps at the top of Mount Everest (prominence 8,848 m), would be about 39 hours ahead of a clock set...

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