Clairaut
Americannoun
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Two craters on the floor of Clairaut are easy objects.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
Another celebrated female mathematician was Madame Hortense Lepaute, born in 1723, who collaborated with Clairaut in the immense calculations by which he predicted the return of Halley's Comet.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
The route was always, within the limits of precision of the calculations, that which Clairaut had indicated beforehand.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert
In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of the meridian.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Arithmetic of Condorcet, Algebra, and Geometry of Clairaut, the Trigonometry of Lacroix or Legendre, to form 1 vol.
From How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
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