A few years ago, I quoted Stanley Jaki on an episode supposedly involved Laplace: Laplace shouted, “We have had enough such myths,” when his fellow academician Marc-Auguste Pictet urged, in the full hearing of the Académie des Sciences, that attention be given to the report about a huge meteor shower that fell at L’Aigle, near Paris, on April 26, 1803.
A Correction Regarding Laplace
A Correction Regarding Laplace
A Correction Regarding Laplace
A few years ago, I quoted Stanley Jaki on an episode supposedly involved Laplace: Laplace shouted, “We have had enough such myths,” when his fellow academician Marc-Auguste Pictet urged, in the full hearing of the Académie des Sciences, that attention be given to the report about a huge meteor shower that fell at L’Aigle, near Paris, on April 26, 1803.