Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (died 1765)

Alexis Clairaut

French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (1713–1765)

Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687. Clairaut was one of the key…