Flowery Regions of Algebra
Simon Schaffer: Pierre Simon Laplace, 14 December 2006
Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist
by Roger Hahn.
Harvard, 310 pp., £21.95, November 2005,0 674 01892 3 Show More
by Roger Hahn.
Harvard, 310 pp., £21.95, November 2005,
“... the Bourbon restoration as a newly ennobled marquis and grand old man of the establishment. Roger Hahn has been studying this career for half a century. He has located letters and papers thought to be lost, written on the tough problems of Laplace’s religious beliefs and his relation with Newtonian cosmology, and at last written a new ... ”