Crossword-Solution: LAPLACE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LAPLACE | anagram | CAPELLA |
We have 10 clues for the answer “LAPLACE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Mécanique Céleste" astronomer | 1 answer |
| French astronomer | 1 answer |
| French astronomer who wrote the seminal "Celestial Mechanics" | 1 answer |
| French astronomer/mathematician who wrote "Traité de Mécanique Céleste" | 1 answer |
| French mathematician (1749–1827). | 1 answer |
| French mathematician/astronomer | 1 answer |
| French pioneer in planetary orbital theory | 1 answer |
| Mathematician/astronomer Pierre Simon | 1 answer |
| Upset friend has left: brilliant mathematician | 1 answer |
| French mathematician | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAPLACE (5)
John Fiske, accurate as he usually is, in his Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy appears to have followed Laplace, Delambre, and Petit into the error of supposing that Copernicus, and not Osiander, is responsible for the preface.
This subject of inquiry dates only from the 17th century, and occupied the minds of Pascal, Huygens, Fermot, Bernouilli, Laplace, Fourier, Lacroix, Poisson, De Moivre; and in more modern times, Cournot, Quetelet, and Professor De Morgan.
Jean le Rond at Paris, and brought up by the wife of a glazier; and Newton and Laplace, the one the son of a small freeholder near Grantham, the other the son of a poor peasant of Beaumont-en-Auge, near Honfleur.
Lagrange and Laplace shall apply the Newtonian theory to determine the secular inequalities of celestial motion; they shall weigh absolutely the amount of matter in the planets; they shall show how far their orbits deviate from circles; and they shall enumerate the cycles of changes detected in the circuit of the moon.
Here, then, we have nearly all the elements of the Daltonian theory of atoms on the one hand, and the nebular hypothesis of Laplace on the other.
Quotes with LAPLACE (3)
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of inspiration. If the writers of the various parts of the bible had known as much about the sciences as is now known by every intelligent man, the book never could have been written. It was produced by ignorance, and has been believed and defended by its author. It has lost power in the proportio…
The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.
I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2021).