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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: William the Conqueror, Paul Heroult, Erik Satie, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Andre-Louis Danjon, Octave Mirbeau, Francois de Malherbe, Ranulf Flambard, Robert Fitzhamon, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Thomas of Bayeux, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, John Dunmore, Nicole Oresme, J. Hector St. John de Crevec ur, Albert Sorel, Georges Marchais, Michel Ferte, Madame d'Aulnoy, Andre Marie, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Aurelien Wiik, Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Eugene Boudin, Rhene-Baton, Robert de Flers, Alain Chartier, Robert Lefevre, Marcel Pinel, Jean-Charles Langlois, Ranulf de Briquessart, Paul Jacques Malouin, Pierre Quantin, Jean Francois Sarrazin, Alain Touraine, Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontecoulant, Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, Pierre Varignon, Barthelemy Vimont, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Gerard Lenorman, Anne Hilarion de Tourville, Pauline Roland, Alphonse Allais, Michel Drucker, Chloe Mortaud, Henri de Regnier, Gaston Lavalley, Etienne Melingue, Rodolphe Thomas, Fulgence Fresnel, Ernest Besnier, Octave Greard, Tanneguy Le Fevre, Francois Henri Turpin, Brigitte Le Brethon, Eliezer of Touques, Pierre-Simon Girard, Orelsan, Paul Jules Tillaux, Andre Desvages, Saint Marcouf, Alain Ferte, Francois-Jean de Mesnil-Durand, Jacques-Pierre Amette, Maximilien Vox, Francois Bonnemer, Jules Cappeliez, Louis-Karim Nebati, Louis Burnouf, Jean Marot. Excerpt: Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 - 5 March 1827) (English pronunciation: ) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mecanique Celeste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, th...
