Clairaut
Americannoun
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I shall begin to be jealous of this little impertinent Mademoiselle Clairaut.
From The History of Emily Montague by Brooke, Frances
In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of the meridian.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Clairaut, assisted by Lalande, found that Saturn would retard the comet 100 days, Jupiter 518 days, and predicted its return to perihelion on April 13th, 1759.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
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)
In this analysis we have merely glanced at the astronomical discoveries of Clairaut, D'Alembert, and Lagrange.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert
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