On April 25, 2019, our French website, Solidarité & Progrès, republished an important historical report on the crucial role that François Arago (1786-1853) played in the fight for republican scientific knowledge during the first half of the nineteenth century. The fight was in opposition to the Newtonian form of oligarchical reductionism which had been ravaging the European continent and the United Kingdom. As Lyndon LaRouche demonstrated many times over, such discoveries as those of Arago’s could have only been made through fundamental axiomatic changes by individual human minds.
The most significant contribution Arago made to the advancement of scientific knowledge was his polemical opposition to the Newtonian theory of light based on the emission of particles. It was Arago’s geometry and epistemology of universal motion which made the second generation of the Ecole Polytechnique students discover how the human mind makes scientific discoveries based on a new and more truthful theory of light.
