Clairaut

American  

[klai-roh, kle-roh] / klɛəˈroʊ, klɛˈroʊ /

noun

1. Alexis Claude 1713–65, French mathematician.

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Clairaut

Here again, the profoundest researches of Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, and La Place, were brought practically to bear on navigation.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

Five geometers, Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, and Laplace, shared between them the world of which Newton had disclosed the existence.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant

Lepaute and the celebrated mathematician, Clairaut, to determine the amount of the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn on Halley's comet, whose return was expected in that year.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm

I love prudence; and will therefore send for Mademoiselle Clairaut to be Rivers’s belle.

From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke

I am to drive MadamoiselleMademoiselle Clairaut, a very pretty French lady: this is however of no consequence, for my eyes see nothing lovely but Emily.

From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke