Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace
(1749–1827)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Works

• The system of the world, 1809 vol 1, vol 2
• The mechanics of Laplace, 1814 external source
• Elementary Illustrations of the Celestial Mechanics of Laplace, 1821. tr. Thomas Young external source
• Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1829), Four volumes, translated and edited by Nathaniel Bowditch

Volume 1 (transcription project)

Volume 2 (transcription project)

Volume 3 (transcription project)

Volume 4 (transcription project)

• Mechanism of the heavens by Mary Somerville, 1831 external source
• A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, 1902 (transcription project)

Works about Laplace

• "Pierre-Simon Laplace," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Laplace, Pierre Simon," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Laplace, Pierre Simon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Biographies of distinguished scientific men by François Arago, 1859 external source
• "Euler, Lagrange, and Laplace" in A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori
• "Laplace's Plan for Perpetual Moonlight" in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 44, Nov 1893 by Daniel Kirkwood.