What is the name of Laplace's five-volume work?
Principia Mathematica
Celestial Mechanics
The Origin of Species
The Wealth of Nations
Answer
Pierre-Simon Laplace summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume work, Mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics), which was published between 1799 and 1825. This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus.
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