Clairaut
Americannoun
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Clairaut made this announcement on November 14, 1758.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
Thus we have succeeded in making evident anomalies which would not easily find their place in the formula of Clairaut.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
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
In addition to Maupertuis, it comprised De Clairaut, Camus, and Lemonnier, Academicians, Albey Outhier, canon of Bayeux, a secretary named Sommereux, a draughtsman, Herbelot, and the scientific Swedish astronomer, Celsius.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
The calculation was difficult: Clairaut discovered the means of effecting it.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
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