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
Clairaut made this memorable communication to the Academy of Sciences on the 14th of November, 1758.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
A comet, that of 1682, had returned at the epoch foretold by Clairaut, and very nearly in the region that mathematical analysis had indicated to him.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
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
CUVIER.—A walled-plain, about 50 miles in diameter, on the S.E. of Clairaut.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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