Clairaut
Americannoun
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The scientific history of the century after Newton, summarized in the above table of dates, embraces the labours of the great mathematicians Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, and especially of Lagrange and Laplace.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
D'Alembert, Clairaut, and others attacked the problem, but were led to just the same result.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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)
I love prudence; and will therefore send for Mademoiselle Clairaut to be Rivers’s belle.
From The History of Emily Montague by Brooke, Frances
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
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