Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, (1833).Artist: J Posselwhite

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Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, (1833). Laplace's (1749-1827) five-volume Mecanique celeste, (Celestial Mechanics, 1799-1825) was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia.

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