Aeronautical Voyages performed with the view of the Advancement of Science

Francis Arago

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This article is a history of ballons up to the year 1852. It describes both the ballons themselves and the scientific problems that they were designed to address.

This paper was written in French, by the famous scientist and secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, Francis Arago, This translation was made for publication in the 1863 annual report of the Smithsonian Institute.