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Alexis Claude Clairaut
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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- Category: Encyclopedias
- Organization: Project Gutenberg
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