Clairaut
Americannoun
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Alexis Claude Clairaut gave this figure: Imagine rain to be falling vertically, and a person carrying a thin perpendicular tube to be standing on the ground.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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 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
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
There is also a ring-plain N.E. of Clairaut, which has very clearly modified the shape of the border on this side.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
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