Nicole reine lepaute biography books

Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. French astronomer. Astronomy Mathematics. Early life [ edit ]. Career [ edit ]. Mathematics of clockmaking [ edit ]. Halley's Comet [ edit ]. Later mathematical accomplishments [ edit ].

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Nicole reine lepaute biography books

Awards Add photo. Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. View map. Lalande approached Alexis Clairaut for help and Clairaut provided a basic programme of work requiring an extraordinary amount of computation. Lalande then asked Nicole-Reine Lepaute to assist him in the computations. Lalande wrote in Bibliographie Astronomique see for example [ 6 ] :- During six months we calculated from morning to night, sometimes even at meals.

The assistance of Mme Lepaute was such that, without her I should never have been able to undertake the enormous labour, in which it was necessary to calculate the distance of each of the two planets Jupiter and Saturn from the comet, separately for each successive degree for years. On 14 November Clairaut reported to the Academy of Sciences that they predicted the comet would reach perihelion by mid-April In fact the team had completed the calculations just in time for, on 25 December , the comet was sighted.

It actually reached perihelion on 13 April , within the margin of error given for the prediction. He listed those who had assisted in the computations but did not put Nicole-Reine Lepaute's name on the list. It has been claimed that this deliberate omission was to please his girlfriend Mademoiselle Goulier who was jealous of Lepaute. Whatever the reason, the omission caused a rift between Lalande and Clairaut , and the two men never again collaborated on an astronomical project.

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Nicolas, Jean Jacques Auguste. Nicolas van Benschoten. Nicolas Tulp. Nicolas Theodore de Saussure. Nicolas Sadi Carnot. Nicolas Pike. Nicolas of Autrecourt c. Nicolas Monardes. Nicolas Louis Robert. Nicolas Lemery.