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Born February 16, 1698 • France
Died August 15, 1758 (aged 60) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Lambert’s law • gravity • Bouguer correction factor • measurement
Jean Richer
French astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Dutch geophysicist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American scientist
Francis Hauksbee, the Elder
English scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Sadi Carnot
French engineer and physicist
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
French scientist and military officer
Jean Picard
French astronomer
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
André-Eugène Blondel
French physicist
Guillaume Amontons
French physicist
Pierre-Louis-Georges Du Buat
French engineer
Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician