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  • Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who conclusively demonstrated the ...
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  • Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who conclusively demonstrated the ...
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  • early on and became his friend. Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps ... himself a worthy successor to Pierre-Simon Laplace. The most important ...
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  • and plant respiration: working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier conducted ... in joint experiment with Pierre-Simon Laplace, when he used a calorimeter ...
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  • he says, "that I have received from Arago, Laplace, and Biot never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth, or the confirmation ...
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  • Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Priestley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Claude Louis Berthollet, Joseph Louis Lagrange and James Watt. In 1779, he became professor ...
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  • with the works of Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Simeon-Denis Poisson. He secured the fellowship he had sought in 1877, and began ...
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  • deriving from Enlightenment thinkers like Pierre-Simon Laplace (and many others). Positivism was first systematically theorized by Comte, who saw the ...
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  • for water tides was made by Pierre-Simon Laplace, who formulated a ... William Thomson rewrote Laplace's equations in terms of vorticity ...
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  • his main intellectual influences were Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Hachette, a former disciple of Marie-Antoine Condorcet, who ...
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  • at the institute were famed mathematicians Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. The style of teaching promoted at the institute was anti ...
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  • and the eminent mathematical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace persuaded him to renounce engineering and devote himself to mathematics. ...
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  • Leibniz, Joseph Lagrange, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Hertz was dissatisfied with the level of physics education in Munich, so he moved to Berlin ...
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  • francs. The famed mathematical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace paid this for him, but Gauss, who felt uncomfortable with the unsolicited gesture, returned ...
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  • century mathematician-physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), who took into consideration the temperature effects of the compression of the ...
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  • French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace memorably formulated the sweeping implications of this thesis by saying: We may regard ...
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  • speed of sound, but it was not correct until Pierre-Simon Laplace accounted for the molecular behavior of gases and introduced the heat capacity ratio ...
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  • in part because the famous scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace supported a particle theory to explain the same phenomena, and his reputation was such ...
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  • including Joseph Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Much of what is known of Euler's religious beliefs can be deduced from his Letters ...
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  • he began a systematic study of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. detected an important defect in one of Laplace’s demonstrations dealing ...
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  • himself, as well as Condorcet and Laplace took a strong dislike to Marat. However, Lamarck and Lacépède wrote positively about Marat's ...
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