The astronomer, mathematician, and early French Newtonian, Alexis Claude Clairaut, was born 7 May 1713
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A Gallic Newtonian
In the early 18th century the whole of France was in the grip of Cartesian physicists, the whole of France? No! A small centre of Newtonian resistance existed on the country estate, Cirey-sur-Blais…
