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  • “A day at the Musee Mecanique is a trip back in time to the pre-PlayStation penny arcades of yesteryear.”

    Boing Boing 2007

  • "Mecanique" inspired Malzieu's gold-sellingalbum, which will make up much of the film's soundtrack.

    Variety.com 2010

  • As Pierre Laplace, the eighteenth-century mathematician and astronomer, said in his Mecanique Celeste, a very few fundamental laws can explain an extraordinary number of very complex phenomena.3

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • The mathematicians have also their culte, dating back to Bowditch, the translator of the “Mecanique celeste,” and the author of a work on practical navigation.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • "Mecanique Celeste" to unravel the mysteries of the heavens.

    Great Astronomers 1876

  • The author of the "Mecanique Celeste" was born at Beaumont-en-Auge, near Honfleur, in 1749, just thirteen years later than his renowned friend Lagrange.

    Great Astronomers 1876

  • No one need attempt to read the "Mecanique Celeste" who has not been naturally endowed with considerable mathematical aptitude which he has cultivated by years of assiduous study.

    Great Astronomers 1876

  • Laplace's most famous work is, of course, the "Mecanique Celeste," in which he essayed a comprehensive attempt to carry out the principles which Newton had laid down, into much greater detail than Newton had found practicable.

    Great Astronomers 1876

  • Let him also write a "Mecanique Celeste," let him employ those consummate talents which he possesses in developing his noble subject to the utmost.

    Great Astronomers 1876

  • She read the "Mecanique Celeste" of Laplace in the original without the aid of Dr. Bowditch's translation.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

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