Alexis Claude Clairaut

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Alexis Claude Clairaut [1]

A French mathematician and astronomer, born at Paris, of so precocious a genius, that he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences at the age of 18; published a theory of the figure of the earth, and computed the orbit of Halley's comet (1713-1765).

References

  1. ↑ Alexis Claude Clairaut from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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