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RefNoEC/1788/18
Previous numbersCert V, 118; A04169
LevelItem
TitleLaplace, Pierre Simon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationPierre Simon De la Place, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, a Gentleman well known to the learned World for his skill in analytical calculations, and his useful application of them to the Theory of Astronomy, being desirous of admission into the Royal Society as a foreign Member; we, whose names are subscribed do, upon our personal knowledge of him or his works, recommend him as very worthy of election into the Society
ProposersJ A DeLuc; J Michell; H Cavendish; Nevil Maskelyne; Wm Marsden; C Blagden; Henry C Englefield
AccessStatusOpen
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Laplace, Pierre Simon: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA5191Laplace; Pierre Simon (1749 - 1827); Marquis de Laplace1749 - 1827
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