... . As a close friend of Napoleon, and as first president of the Institute, he should have busied himself with carrying out Napoleon's suggested research programs. Instead, Monge became fascinated with the physics of mirages. The phenomenon became known to the French army quite early, when they marched across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo. The soldiers saw what seemed to be immense ... ...

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