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Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt | Linda Hall Library
One of Napoleon's leading scientists, Gaspard Monge
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tm...ard_Monge.html , became obsessed with mirages in the desert which set him a bit
adrift from his duties as he spent
seasons trying to write a seminal article on the causes of this natural phenomenon.