See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

FERDINAND See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND PLATEAU (1801-1883)

PLATEAU (1801-1883)  , Belgian physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels on the 14th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 18o1, and died on the 15th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1883 at See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, where he had been See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physics from 1835 . He was a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil and friend of L . A . J . See also:

• QUETELET, LAMBERT ADOLPHE JACQUES (1796-1874)

Quetelet, who had much See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• PART

part of his career . The more See also:

• ORIGINAL

original investigations of See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

Plateau refer chiefly to portions of one or other of two branches of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science—physiological See also:

• OPTICS

optics and molecular forces . We owe to him the " stroboscopic " method of studying the See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of a vibrating See also:

• BODY

body, by looking at it through equidistant radial slits in a revolving disk . In 1829 he imprudently gazed at the midday See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun for 20 seconds, with the view of studying the after effects . The result was See also:

• BLINDNESS

blindness for some days, succeeded by a temporary recovery; but for the next fourteen years his sight gradually deteriorated, and in 1843 he became permanently See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind . This calamity did not interrupt his scientific activity . Aided by his wife and son, and afterwards by his son-in-See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law G . L. See also:

• VAN

van der Mensbrugghe, he continued to the end of his See also:

• LIFE

life his researches on See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

vision—directing the course of the experiments which they made for him, and interpreting the bearing of the results .

He also published a valuable See also:

• ANALYTICAL

analytical See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of all the more important See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs which had been written, from the earliest times to the end of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, on his favourite theme of subjective visual phenomena . But even more extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary were this blind See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's investigations about molecular forces, embracing hundreds of novel experiments whose results he saw only with others' eyes . These See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the subject of his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work Statique experimentale et theorique See also:

• DES

des liquides soumis aux seules forces moleculaires (2 vols., 1873), a valuable contribution to our knowledge of capillary phenomena . His son, See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

Felix Auguste See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Plateau (b . 1841), became professor of See also:

• ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology and See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy at Ghent in 187o .