Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1833. Artist: Unknown

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Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1833. Laplace's (1749-1827) five volume Mecanique celeste (1799-1825) was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia. From The Gallery of Portraits by Charles Knight. (London 1833).

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