Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 by Charles Coulston Gillispie

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 by Charles Coulston Gillispie

Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the nfluential scientists in history. This book traces the development of Laplace's research program and of his participation in the Academy of Science during the last decades of the Old Regime into the early years of the French Revolution.

"Gillispie's distinguished biography is a magisterial survey of one of the most influential scientists of the past two centuriesIt is also a history of science at its most challenging."--William R. Shea, Nature "This is a rich and extremely well documented presentation of Laplace's works, which will surely prompt many scientists to go back to the original texts themselves and find out more about this great French scientist."--Jean-Bernard Robert, Physics World "This book will decidedly be the definitive one-volume work on Laplace, and will be of particular value to mathematicians and physicists who wish to know the mathematical details of the origins of a number of significant parts of their subjects."--R. L. Cooke, Mathematical Reviews "This book provides a scholarly and human view of the scientific life of Laplace, seen through the intellectual, political, and social environment of his time."--Lorenzo J. Curtis, Naturvetenskap

Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, where he founded the Program in History of Science in 1960. He is the author or numerous books, including The Edge of Objectivity (Princeton). He is the editor of the sixteen-volume Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Robert Fox is Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford. Ivor Grattan-Guinness is Professor of the History of Mathmatics and Logic at Middlesex Polytechnic University in London.

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ISBN 13	9780691050270
ISBN 10	0691050279
Title	Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
Author	Charles Coulston Gillispie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2000-02-27
Number of pages	336
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