CONTENTS.


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THE HISTORY OF MY YOUTH.

An Autobiography of Francis Arago 1


BAILLY.

Introduction 91

Infancy of Bailly.--His Youth.--His Literary Essays.--His
Mathematical Studies 93

Bailly becomes the Pupil of Lacaille.--He is associated
with him in his Astronomical Labours 97

Bailly a Member of the Academy of Sciences.--His Researches
on Jupiter's Satellites 103

Bailly's Literary Works.--His Biographies of Charles V.--of
Leibnitz--of Peter Corneille--of Molière 106

Debates relative to the Post of Perpetual Secretary of
the Academy of Sciences 110

History of Astronomy.--Letters on the Atlantis of Plato
and on the Ancient History of Asia 114