Title

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1833. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1833. Laplace's (1749-1827) five volume Mecanique celeste (1799-1825) was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia. From The Gallery of Portraits by Charles Knight. (London 1833).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_061

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No

License type

Rights managed

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50,0Mb (3,7Mb) / 12,4in x 15,7in / 3712 x 4704 (300dpi)

Keywords

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