Tremendous Astronomer: - Pierre-Simon Laplace

Avneet Kumar Singla

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Young Laplace

Chapter 2 Mecanique Celeste

Chapter 3 Fog Theory

Chapter 4 Public Affairs and Retirement

Chapter 1 Young Laplace

The author of the "Mecanique Celeste" was born in 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge near Honfleur, only thirteen years later than his well-known friend Lagrange. His father was a farmer, but seems to have been able to give a promising son a good education. Considering the unorthodoxy in religious matters which Laplace is said to have generally characterized in later years, it is interesting to note that the subject which first claimed his attention was theology when he was a boy. He was, however, soon introduced to the study of mathematics, in which he presently became so proficient that, while he was not yet more than eighteen years old, he obtained employment as a mathematics teacher in his native town.