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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Clairaut, Alexis Claude
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A French mathematician and astronomer, born at Paris, of so precocious a genius, that he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences at the age of 18; published a theory of the figure of the earth, and computed the orbit of Halley's comet (1713-1765).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Clairaut, Alexis Claude'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/clairaut-alexis-claude.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Clairaut, Alexis Claude'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/clairaut-alexis-claude.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.