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Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (Celestial … See more
Some details of Laplace's life are not known, as records of it were burned in 1925 with the family château in Saint Julien de Mailloc, … See more
Jupiter–Saturn great inequality
Laplace presented a memoir on planetary inequalities in three sections, in 1784, 1785, and 1786. This … See moreIn 1806, Laplace bought a house in Arcueil, then a village and not yet absorbed into the Paris conurbation. The chemist Claude Louis Berthollet was … See more
Laplace's early published work in 1771 started with differential equations and finite differences but he was already starting to think about the … See more
During the years 1784–1787 he published some papers of exceptional power. Prominent among these is one read in 1783, reprinted as … See more
Laplace was a supporter of the corpuscle theory of light of Newton. In the fourth edition of Mécanique Céleste, Laplace assumed that short-ranged molecular forces were … See more
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