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  1. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/

    5 Mar 2026: Applying quantitative methods to a comparison of living and nonliving systems, Laplace and the chemist Antoine Lavoisier in 1780, with the aid of an ice calorimeter that they had invented, showed ... Math. Mag. 17 (1942), 73-78. L M R Saraiva, Laplace,

  2. Vandermonde PDF (894k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/vandermonde.pdf

    17 Aug 2026: In 1776, he conducted experiments at low temperatures with ÉTIENNE BÉZOUT and ANTOINE LAVOISIER.

  3. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers © 2007 Springer Lagrange,… PDF (117k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BEA/lagrange_bea.pdf

    12 Feb 2026: A special dispensation was arranged for Lagrange at the behest of chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who would himself be executed by the radicals a few months later.

  4. Antonio Mario Lorgna (1735 - 1796) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lorgna/

    20 Oct 2024: entries. Lorgna was involved in this controversy arguing his case with the Academy and with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), president of the second jury.

  5. Vandermonde PDF (718k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/German/vandermonde_ger.pdf

    17 Aug 2026: Mit ÉTIENNE BÉZOUT und ANTOINE LAVOISIER führte er 1776 Experimente zu niedrigen.

  6. Jean-Charles de Borda (1733 - 1799) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Borda/

    19 Mar 2026: His parents were Jean-Antoine de Borda, Lord of Labattut, and Marie-Thérèse de la Croix. ... Jean-Antoine and Marie-Thérèse has sixteen children, eight boys and eight girls.

  7. Art, Mathematics, Music - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Art_Mathematics_Music/

    7 Mar 2023: by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier towards the end of that century, heat being actually transferred by the kinetic energy of vibration of matter.

  8. sci_hi PDF (442k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/lagrange_sh.pdf

    12 Dec 2025: When the great chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was guillotined, Lagrange commented, “It took them only an instant to cut off that head, and a hundred years may not produce another like ... And after Lavoisier’s death in 1794, it was largely owing

  9. Joseph Louis Lagrange English version PDF (399k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/lagrange.pdf

    5 Mar 2021: the country, ANTOINE LAURENT DE LAVOISIER intervened and obtained an explicit exemption for. ... LAGRANGE. A few months later, Lavoisier would become a victim of the guillotine during the Reign.

  10. Lagrange PDF (348k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/German/lagrange_ger.pdf

    26 Nov 2025: Als ein Gesetz die Enteignung aller. Bürger ausländischer Herkunft vorsah, verwandte sich ANTOINE. ... LAURENT DE LAVOISIER für ihn und erreichte eine Ausnahme –. wenige Monate später wurde LAVOISIER selbst Opfer der.