Adolphe Ganot

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Adolphe Ganot (born 1804 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; died 1887 in Paris{{in lang|fr}} Françoise Khantine-Langlois (2006?), [http://www.ampere.cnrs.fr/parcourspedagogique/zoom/oersted/pdf/Langlois_Ganot_SFC_2006.pdf Un siècle de physique à travers un manuel à succès: le traité de physique de Ganot] [A century of physics through a successful textbook: Ganot's treatise on physics] ([http://www.societechimiquedefrance.fr/IMG/pdf/Langlois_Ganot_SFC_trad_anglais.pdf English translation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102175107/http://www.societechimiquedefrance.fr/IMG/pdf/Langlois_Ganot_SFC_trad_anglais.pdf |date=2 November 2014 }})) was a French writer 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".{{cite book|last1=Papanelopoulou |first1=F. |last2=Nieto-Galan |first2=A. |last3=Perdiguero |first3=E. |title=Popularising Science and Technology in the European Periphery |year=2009 |publisher=Aldershot |location=Ashgate |pages=89–114 |chapter=Circumventing the "Elusive Quarries" of Popular Science: The Communication and Appropriation of Ganot's Physics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Josep Simon |url=http://www.ihmc.uv-csic.es/documentos/publicaciones/63a979.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629110055/http://www.ihmc.uv-csic.es//documentos/publicaciones/63a979.pdf |archivedate=2013-06-29 }} His popular Treatise on Physics (French: Traité de Physique) was translated into several languages.{{cite book|last1=Simon|first1=Josep |last2=Herran|first2=Nestor|title=Beyond Borders : Fresh Perspectives in History of Science|url=http://www.josepsimon.com/app/download/7163222968/Simon%202008-Ganot-BB.pdf?t=1360521357|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Pub.|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|page=141ff|chapter=The Franco-British communication and appropriation of Ganot's Physique (1851–1881)|isbn=9781847184832}}