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Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. 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 figures in the expedition to the Lapland that helped to confirm Newton's deduction of the figure of the Earth. In that context, Cl…
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science · French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (1713–1765) · astronomer · mathematician · physicist · geodesist · also Alexis Clairaut, Alexis Claude Clairaut, Clairaut
Born 13 May 1713 · Died 17 May 1765 · Q28937
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It appears even Sir Isaac Newton was of the opinion, that it was necessary the Earth should be more dense toward the center, in order to be so much the flatter at the poles: and that it followed from this greater flatness, that gravity increased so much the more from the equator towards the Pole.
“It appears even Sir Isaac Newton was of the opinion, that it was necessary the Earth should be more dense toward the center, in order to be so much the flatter at the poles: and that it followed from this greater flatness, that gravity increased so much the more from the equator towards the Pole.”
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George Stokes showed that Clairaut's result was true whatever the interior constitution or density of the Earth, provided the surface was a spheroid of equilibrium of small eccentricity
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Died 1765-05-17.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1737).
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Born 1713-05-13.
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