On April 15, 1874, a group of some 30 painters, many rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, were invited by the photographer Nadar to showcase their works in his former Paris studio.

The road in Paris named after French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, as drawn by an artist in 1896. (Credit: F Séguin, Dessinateur. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. D.10405) An 1851 experiment in ...

View Louis Armand Hippolyte Fizeau and Louius-Henri Breviere’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold ...

View Louis Armand Hippolyte Fizeau’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Adam Savage explores two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries stemming from simple, creative methods that anyone could have replicated: how Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's ...

I was doodling about on the internet reading about various astronomical topics—as I do sometimes, and I highly recommend it—and stumbled upon an interesting fact: The first photograph of the Sun was ...

If we want to click a picture of the sun, we pick up a camera or a smartphone and snap it in all its magnificence. While it is as easy as that currently, capturing the sun was no easy feat even a ...

BY the death of M. Fizeau physical science has lost one who will rank high among those who have contributed to the scientific distinction of the nineteenth century. Every student of optics knows M.