Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713-65)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3542. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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French mathematician, infant prodigy, wrote Théorie de la Figure de la Terre, a treatise dealing with the shape of rotating solid bodies, calculated the effect that Saturn and Jupiter would have on the 1759 appearance of HALLEY's Comet and predicted its return to within a month. He recalculated NEWTON's theory of the motion of the Moon, wrote Théorie de la Lune....

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