Clairaut
Americannoun
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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
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
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
This generality increased tenfold the difficulties of the problem; neither Clairaut nor D'Alembert was, however, arrested by them.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
BACON.—A very fine ring-plain, 40 miles in diameter, S.W. of Clairaut.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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