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Simon-Pierre Laplace : Exposition du systeme du monde

'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am not one of the gifted half-dozen that can understand it - but the original of that book which Smeal once brought from Selkirk and lent to you.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Simon-Pierre Laplace : Exposition du systeme du monde

'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

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