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Laplace — Mathematician and astronomer, author of the Mécanique céleste, 1749–1827
Son of a farming family of the Pays d’Auge, a pupil of his village college and then of the university of Caen, he went up to Paris with a letter for d’Alembert, who obtained him a chair at the École militaire in 1769. A member of the Académie des sciences at twenty-four, he published the Exposition du système du monde in 1796 and the Mécanique céleste in five volumes from 1799 to 1825. Minister of the Interior for six weeks under the Consulate, he became senator, count of the Empire and then marquis. (Editorial synthesis)
Laplace was born on 23 March 1749. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge. (source: Larousse)
Laplace died on 5 March 1827. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Laplace died in Paris. (source: Larousse)
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