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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 414 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alexis Claude Clairaut, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Simpson, Brook Taylor, Robert Simson, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Sinclair, John Playfair, Jean Bernoulli, Matthew Stewart, Robert Smith, John Machin, Guillaume le Blond, John Craig, John Keill, John Leslie. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Alexis Claude Clairaut , né le 13 mai 1713 à Paris où il est mort le 17 mai 1765, est un mathématicien français. Il est le second d'une fratrie de vingt et un enfants. Son père, Jean-Baptiste Clairaut (1680-1766), enseignait les mathématiques. Il est instruit par lui en cette matière, apprenant à lire dans les Éléments d'Euclide. Il se montre d'une précocité telle qu'à l'âge de douze ans il écrit un mémoire sur quatre courbes géométriques. À treize ans, il lit devant l'Académie des sciences un compte rendu des propriétés de quatre courbes qu'il avait découvertes. À seize ans seulement, il finit un traité intitulé Recherches sur les courbes à double courbure qui, lors de sa publication en 1731, entraîne son admission à l'Académie des sciences alors qu'il n'avait pas l'âge légal. En 1731, il obtient une démonstration du fait remarquable dû à Newton que toutes les courbes du troisième ordre sont des projections de cinq paraboles particulières. Il devient membre de la Royal Society le 27 octobre 1737. En 1736, avec Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, il participe à l'expédition en Laponie dont l'objet est d'estimer la longueur d'un degré de méridien. À son retour, il publie un traité Théorie de la figure de la terre (1743), où il démontre le théorème, connu sous le nom de « théorème de Clairaut », qui relie l'aplatissement géométrique f à la surface d'un ellipsoïde en rotation à une quantité cinétique (le facteur ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more