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d’Alembert, Jean-Le-Rond

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Dalembert, Jean-Le-Rond

Born Paris, France, 16 November 1717

Died Paris, France, 29 October 1783

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  • D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond (2002). Premiers textes de mé canique céleste, 1747–1749, edited by Michelle Chapront-Touzé. Vol. 6 of œuvres complètes: Série I. Paris: CNRS Éditions.

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  • D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond (2006). Précession et nutation, edited by Michelle Chapront-Touzé and Jean Souchay. Vol. 7 of œuvres complètes: Série I. Paris: CNRS Éditions.

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  • Hankins, Thomas L. (1970). Jean d’Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Reprinted in 1990. New York: Gordon and Breach.)

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  • Wilson, Curtis (1987). “D’Alembert versus Euler on the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Mechanics of Rigid Bodies.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences37: 233–273.

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  1. CNRS-Paris Observatory-SYRTE, Paris, France

    Michelle Chapront-Touzé

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  1. Michelle Chapront-Touzé
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Correspondence to Michelle Chapront-Touzé .

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Chapront-Touzé, M. (2014). d’Alembert, Jean-Le-Rond. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_325

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