Clairaut
Americannoun
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I love prudence; and will therefore send for Mademoiselle Clairaut to be Rivers’s belle.
From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
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
Two craters on the floor of Clairaut are easy objects.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
He showed it in a most unequivocal manner, by offering, though so avaricious of his time, to become the guide of the future observer, and also to put him in communication with Clairaut.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
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 Sir Oliver Lodge
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