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Description: Wikipedia describes him as 'one of the greatest scientists of all time, sometimes referred to as the French Newton'. The names of his major works, Mechanique Celeste, Exposition du Systeme du Monde and Theorie Analytique des Probabilités are inscribed on the frieze below the pediment.
Title: Tomb of Pierre-Simon Laplace
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