Adolphe Ganot (born 1804 in
Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Rochefort ( oc, Ròchafòrt), unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer (; oc, Ròchafòrt de Mar, link=no) for disambiguation, is a city and communes of France, commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente (river), Charente estuary. It is a Subpr ...
, France; died 1887 in Paris
[ Françoise Khantine-Langlois (2006?)]
Un siècle de physique à travers un manuel à succès: le traité de physique de Ganot
century of physics through a successful textbook: Ganot's treatise on physicsbr>English translation
)) was a French author and publisher of physics textbooks. Ganot's textbooks, written during the second half of the nineteenth century, made "...a decisive contribution to physics and its teaching on an international scale". His popular ''Treatise on Physics'' (French: ''Traité de Physique'') was translated into several languages.
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19th-century French writers
French science writers
Textbook writers
People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
1804 births
1887 deaths
19th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
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