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Félix Savary, who was born on 4 October 1797 in
biography, J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, MacTutor. Accessed on line September 4, 2008. He studied at the
Félix Savary, who was born on 4 October 1797 in Paris
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and died on 15 July 1841 in Estagel
Estagel (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
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, was a French astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...
.Felix Savarybiography, J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, MacTutor. Accessed on line September 4, 2008. He studied at the
École Polytechnique
(, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...
, where he was later a professor of astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...
. He was a librarian at the Bureau des Longitudes
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between 1823 and 1829, and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences
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on 24 December 1832.
In his works ''Mémoire sur les orbites des étoiles doubles'' and ''Sur la détermination des orbites que décrivent autour de leur centre de gravité deux étoiles très rapprochées l'une de l'autre'', published in 1827, he was the first to use observations of a visual binary star
A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night sky that are seen as a single object to the naked eye are often resolved as separate stars us ...
to calculate the orbit of one star about the other. He applied his method to the star ξ Ursae Majoris
Xi Ursae Majoris is a quintuple star system away in the constellation of Ursa Major. It has the traditional name Alula Australis; ''Xi Ursae Majoris'' is the Bayer designation, which is Romanization of Greek, Latinised from ξ U ...
.
He worked with Ampère, publishing in 1823 the work ''Mémoire sur l'application du calcul aux phénomènes électro-dynamiques''.
See also
*LC circuit
An LC circuit, also called a resonant circuit, tank circuit, or tuned circuit, is an electric circuit consisting of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C, connected together. The circuit can act ...
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