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	Alexis Claude Clairaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexis Claude de Clairault (or Clairaut) (May 3, 1713 â“ May 17, 1765) was a French mathematician and thinker.
		Clairault subsequently wrote various papers on the orbit of the Moon, and on the motion of comets as affected by the perturbation of the planets, particularly on the path of Halley's comet.
		In 1741 Clairault went on a scientific expedition to measure the length of a meridian degree on the Earth's surface, and on his return in 1743 he published his ThÃ©orie de la figure de la terre.
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	Alexis Clairault Encyclopedia Article @ PSAMathe.com (PSA Mathe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was a prodigy — at the age of twelve he wrote a memoir on four geometrical curves and under his father's tuition he made such rapid progress in the subject that in his thirteenth year he read before the Académie française an account of the properties of four curves which he had discovered.
		In 1741 Clairault went on a scientific expedition to measure the length of a meridian degree on the Earth's surface, and on his return in 1743 he published his Théorie de la figure de la terre.
		This is founded on a paper by Colin Maclaurin, which had shown that a mass of homogeneous fluid set in rotation about a line through its centre of mass would, under the mutual attraction of its particles, take the form of a spheroid.
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	Clairault (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clairault is located in the Margaret River wine region, approximately 30 kilometres north of the Margaret River township and three hours south of Perth.
		In January 2001, Nick joined Clairault, where he is responsible for the management and maintenance of the vineyard, development of new vineyards, liaison with contract growers and the coordination of harvest.
		In 1994, Peter saw in Clairault the personal environment he was seeking, the chance to explore and craft his talent, and the dynamic opportunity to be part of one of the oldest wineries in a premium wine growing region.
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	Clairaut biography
		Alexis Clairaut's father, Jean-Baptiste Clairaut, taught mathematics in Paris and showed his quality by being elected to the
		Alexis's mother, Catherine Petit, had twenty children although only Alexis survived to adulthood.
		Alexis used Euclid's Elements while learning to read and by the age of nine he had mastered the excellent mathematics textbook of Guisnée Application de l'algèbre à la géométrie which provided a good introduction to the differential and integral calculus as well as analytical geometry.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Clairaut.html (2004 words)

	Alexis Clairault - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexis Claude Clairault (or Clairaut) (May 3, 1713 – May 17, 1765) was a French mathematician.
		He was born in Paris, France, where his father taught mathematics.
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	CLAIRAULT (or CLAIRAUT... - Online Information article about CLAIRAULT (or CLAIRAUT...
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		work he promulgated the theorem, known as " Clairault's theorem," which connects the gravity at points on the See also:
		Clairault died at Paris, on the 17th of May 1765.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHR_CLI/CLAIRAULT_or_CLAIRAUT_ALEXIS_CL.html (446 words)

	1713 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		April 21 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d.
		May 3 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (d.
		May 6 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d.
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