Georges-Louis Le Sage (French: [lə saʒ]; 13 June 1724 – 9 November 1803) was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for...
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Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le...
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George Sage may refer to: George Sage (footballer) (1872–?), English footballer George Read Sage (1828–1898), United States federal judge Georges-Louis...
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Lesage (surname) (redirect from Le Sage (surname))
French embroidery designer of Maison Lesage Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803), Swiss physicist known for Le Sage's theory of gravitation Gilbert Lesage (1910–1989)...
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in Geneva, he devoted himself to the study of mathematics under Georges-Louis Le Sage, and acquired from Switzerland an intense love of liberty. In politics...
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neglected by their contemporaries, were Mikhail Lomonosov (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James...
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deconsecrated. His compatriot Georges-Louis Le Sage later purchased many of his scientific papers which, together with those of Le Sage, are now in the Geneva...
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gravity Le Sage's theory of gravitation (1784) also called LeSage gravity but originally proposed by Fatio and further elaborated by Georges-Louis Le Sage, based...
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Mondes, granddaughter of pastor Pierre Mouchon and the physicist Georges-Louis Le Sage, philanthropist, feminist, imperialist and writer. Key work: De...
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of De Pretto's work. Preston and De Pretto, following physicist Georges-Louis Le Sage, imagined that the universe was filled with an ether of tiny particles...
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Encyclopédistes (section Le chevalier de Jaucourt)
La Chapelle Guillaume Le Blond André le Breton Georges-Louis Le Sage Antoine Louis Baron d'Holbach Louis de Jaucourt Jacques-Raymond Lucotte Philippe-Antoine...
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Balthazar-Georges Sage (French pronunciation: [/saʒ/]; 7 May 1740 – 9 September 1824) was a French chemist who was a founder of the Paris Ecole Royale...
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and magnetism in his treatise Electricity and Magnetism. In 1782, Georges-Louis Le Sage developed and presented in Berlin probably the world's first form...
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actress and singer François Le Fort (1656–1699), first Russian Admiral Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803), physicist, Le Sage's theory of gravitation Jean...
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were never developed into a useful communication system. In 1774, Georges-Louis Le Sage realised an early electric telegraph. The telegraph had a separate...
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also a decided supporter of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As a student of Georges-Louis Le Sage, Jean-André Deluc received a basic education in mathematics and...
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published, with additions of his own, the Traité de physique by Georges-Louis Le Sage, and for his enunciation of the law of exchange in radiation. His...
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literary and scientific circle (of which the most prominent member was Georges-Louis Le Sage). He studied closely the works of Charles Bonnet, as well as the...
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(1916–1999) Carl Sagan – United States (1934–1996) Georges-Louis le Sage – Switzerland (1724–1803) Georges Sagnac – France (1869–1926) Megh Nad Saha – Bengali...
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(1690) and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1748) proposed a corpuscular model using some sort of screening or shadowing mechanism. In 1784, Le Sage posited that...
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once a moon of a now-exploded "Planet V". Van Flandern supported Georges-Louis Le Sage's theory of gravitation, according to which gravity is the result...
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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690, and re-invented, among others, by Georges-Louis Le Sage (1748), Lord Kelvin (1872), and Hendrik Lorentz (1900), and criticized...
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Alain-René Lesage (redirect from Alain René le Sage)
older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux)...
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than all the philosophers of this and the last age".)[page needed] Georges-Louis LeSage built a static electricity telegraph in 1774, based upon the same...
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Chronology in Georges Bataille, Romans et récits, Pléiade, 2004, p. xciv. Michel Surya, Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography, 2002; Georges Bataille...
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divina proportione Anna Eynard-Lullin Henri Fehr Jeanne de Jussie Georges-Louis Le Sage List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) Livre de chasse Ella Maillart...
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Rainich George Zweig Georges-Louis Le Sage Georges Abrial Georges Charpak Georges Friedel Georges Lemaître Georges Sagnac Georgi Dvali Georgi Manev Georgi...
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2023. "Fabio Grosso mis à pied, Pierre Sage en intérim sur le banc de l'OL" [Fabio Grosso laid off, Pierre Sage interim on the OL bench] (in French). L'Équipe...
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defended the Greek mathematician against a charge levied at him by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1756. Lax's defence was applauded by the British Critic as 'perfectly...
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