Pierre-Simon Laplace

Their subject was the possibilities of "popularising" the new cosmology of the great French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace, whose work, Mécanique céleste, was regarded as second only to Newton's Principia.

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

Leonhard Euler, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Karl Friedrich Gauss prepared these mathematical and theoretical foundations, elaborated by Sir William Hamilton, which shaped the positive content of Maxwell's work ...

Chapter 4 1990

Modern deep-sea exploration based on science is said to have begun when the French scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace calculated the depth of the Atlantic Ocean from observing the tidal motions along the shores of West Africa and Brazil.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

In 1814, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace described an entity, later called Laplace's Demon, that was capable of calculating and determining all future events, provided that the demon was given the positions, masses, and velocities of every atom in the universe and the various known formulae of motion.

Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

With Pierre-Simon Laplace, this became the bedrock of reductionism: Given the positions and momenta of all the particles in the universe, a vast intelligence could, using Newton's laws, deduce the entire future and past of the universe.

NPR Topics: News 2011

The French mathematical astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) extended the work of his predecessors in his multi-volume

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010

Pierre-Simon Laplace showed that the Solar System is reasonably stable, although some of his conclusions were modified in the late twentieth century.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010

The basic idea for how stars form goes back to Immanuel Kant and Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 18th century, and the details of how they shine and evolve were worked out by physicists in the first half of the 20th century.

Scientific American 2010

The basic idea for how stars form goes back to Immanuel Kant and Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 18th century, and the details of how they shine and evolve were worked out by physicists in the first half of the 20th century.

Scientific American 2010

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1774) made the first attempt to deduce a rule for the combination of observations from the principles of the theory of probabilities.

LearnHub Activities 2009