Title

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1881. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1881. Laplace's (1749-1827) five volume Mecanique celeste (1799-1825) was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia. From A Popular History of Science by Robert Routledge. (London, 1881).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1881

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_060

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,0Mb) / 13,0in x 14,9in / 3909 x 4467 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male job man men country French France science guy occupation astronomy profile scientist location century profession maths mathematics arithmetic B&W MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century astronomer Eighteenth Century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive mathematician Pierre Simon Laplace engraving portrait Unknown Robert Robert Routledge Routledge Laplace Pierre Simon Robert Routledge engraving portrait