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If we descend from the heavens to the earth, the discoveries of Laplace will appear not less worthy of his genius. He reduced the phenomena of the tides, which an ancient philosopher termed in despair “the tomb of human curiosity,” to an analytical theory in which the physical conditions of the question figure for the first time.
Francois Arago (1786-1853), physicist, astronomer.
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