When1: 1731
When2: 1752
Who: Alexis-Claude Clairaut [Clairaut, Alexis-Claude]
What: mathematician
Where: Paris, France
works\ Theory of the Shape of the Earth [1743]; Theory of the Moon [1752]
Detail: He lived 1713 to 1765, studied space curves [1731], invented Clairaut's equation, and determined Earth's shape.
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