Daniel Bernoulli
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Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of math
Portrait of Daniel Bernoulli, c. 1720-1725
Daniel Bernoulli
A 1738 copy of Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica
First page of the first section of a 1738 copy of Hydrodynamica
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summari
Pierre-Simon Laplace as chancellor of the Senate under the First French Empire
Portrait of Pierre-Simon Laplace by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1775)
The Calorimeter of Lavoisier and La Place, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1801
A. Lunar gravitational potential: this depicts the Moon directly over 30° N (or 30° S) viewed from above the Northern Hemisphere.