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NAME: PIERRE-SIMON LA PLACE

DATE: 23/03/1749-05/03/1827

BIOGRAPHY: Simon Laplace was an astronomer,

physicist, and mathematician. He continued with the law of
Newtonian mechanics, also created Laplace education, and

raised the theory of the Nebula on the formation of the solar
system in which we live. He went to study at the University of

Caen. In 1795, Laplace published one of his five volumes,
talking about Celestial Mechanics, later he published
"Exposition du système du monde", where he spoke of his
theory on the creation of the Solar system and the Nebular
of
theory. In 1799 he was appointed Minister of the Interior
France and a year later he found the truth about the Nebula
theory and the movement of the Planets Jupiter, Saturn and

our natural satellite, the Moon.