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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 ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
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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 ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- early on and became his friend. Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps ... himself a worthy successor to Pierre-Simon Laplace. The most important ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- and plant respiration: working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier conducted ... in joint experiment with Pierre-Simon Laplace, when he used a calorimeter ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- Ohm to read the works of Leonhard Euler, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sylvestre François Lacroix. Rather reluctantly, Ohm took this advice but he left ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Priestley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Claude Louis Berthollet, Joseph Louis Lagrange and James Watt. In 1779, he became professor ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 15:45, 6 November 2022
- deriving from Enlightenment thinkers like Pierre-Simon Laplace (and many others). Positivism was first systematically theorized by Comte, who saw the ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- for water tides was made by Pierre-Simon Laplace, who formulated a ... William Thomson rewrote Laplace's equations in terms of vorticity ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- his main intellectual influences were Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Hachette, a former disciple of Marie-Antoine Condorcet, who ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- at the institute were famed mathematicians Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. The style of teaching promoted at the institute was anti ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- and the eminent mathematical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace persuaded him to renounce engineering and devote himself to mathematics. ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- Leibniz, Joseph Lagrange, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Hertz was dissatisfied with the level of physics education in Munich, so he moved to Berlin ...15 KB (2,237 words) - 15:17, 25 January 2023
- francs. The famed mathematical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace paid this for him, but Gauss, who felt uncomfortable with the unsolicited gesture, returned ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- century mathematician-physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), who took into consideration the temperature effects of the compression of the ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace memorably formulated the sweeping implications of this thesis by saying: We may regard ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,914 words) - 06:23, 15 June 2023
- in part because the famous scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace supported a particle theory to explain the same phenomena, and his reputation was such ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- including Joseph Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Much of what is known of Euler's religious beliefs can be deduced from his Letters ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- he began a systematic study of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. detected an important defect in one of Laplace’s demonstrations dealing ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023