Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, where he founded the Program in History of Science in 1960. He is the author or numerous books, including The Edge of Objectivity (Princeton). He is the editor of the sixteen-volume Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Robert Fox is Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford. Ivor Grattan-Guinness is Professor of the History of Mathmatics and Logic at Middlesex Polytechnic University in London.
"Gillispie's distinguished biography is a magisterial survey of one
of the most influential scientists of the past two centuries. It is
also a history of science at its most challenging."---William R.
Shea, Nature
"This is a rich and extremely well documented presentation of
Laplace's works, which will surely prompt many scientists to go
back to the original texts themselves and find out more about this
great French scientist."---Jean-Bernard Robert, Physics World
"This book will decidedly be the definitive one-volume work on
Laplace, and will be of particular value to mathematicians and
physicists who wish to know the mathematical details of the origins
of a number of significant parts of their subjects."---R. L. Cooke,
Mathematical Reviews
"This book provides a scholarly and human view of the scientific
life of Laplace, seen through the intellectual, political, and
social environment of his time."---Lorenzo J. Curtis,
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