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Pierre Simon Laplace

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Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician and astronomer. [1881]. His five volume "Mecanique celeste" 1799-1825 was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's "Principia". From "A Popular History of Science" by Robert Routledge. (London, 1881). Engraving.

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