Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1881. Laplace's (1749-1827) five volume Mecanique celeste (1799-1825) was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia. From A Popular History of Science by Robert Routledge. (London, 1881).
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