Clairaut
Americannoun
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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
D'Alembert, Clairaut, and others attacked the problem, but were led to just the same result.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
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 Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
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
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
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