Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact SciencePrinceton University Press, 2000 M02 27 - 322 pages Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-1825) and Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812). In the former he demonstrated mathematically the stability of the solar system in service to the universal Newtonian law of gravity. In the latter he developed probability from a set of miscellaneous problems concerning games, averages, mortality, and insurance risks into the branch of mathematics that permitted the quantification of estimates of error and the drawing of statistical inferences, wherever data warranted, in social, medical, and juridical matters, as well as in the physical sciences. |
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... Planetary Astronomy 124 PART III : SYNTHESIS AND SCIENTIFIC STATESMANSHIP Chapter 17. The Revolution and the Metric System 149 Chapter 18. Scientific Work in the Early Revolution 156 Chapter 19. Exposition du système du monde Chapter 20. A.
... planetary astron- omy and involved him centrally in the preparation of the metric system . More important , in the decade from 1795 to 1805 his influence was paramount for the exact sciences in the newly founded Institut de France ; and ...
... planetary orbits , the lunar orbit , perturba- tions produced in the motion of the planets by the action of their satellites , and " the Newtonian theory of the motion of the planets " ( 9 ) . Of these papers , four were published ( 1 ...
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