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Born April 9, 1816 • France
Died August 5, 1872 (aged 56) • near Cherbourg-en-Cotentin • France
Subjects Of Study Moon • space motion
Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and astronomer
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
George William Hill
American astronomer
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French physicist
Jacques Cassini
French astronomer
Jean-Charles de Borda
French naval officer and physicist
Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician

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