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Should this title be moved to Philippe de La Hire? Regards Gangleri | Th | T 19:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
The death date appears to be off one year, 1718 as given in the Catholic Encyclopedia, and Larousse. nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu
There should be a section mentioning his multiple acts of intellectual thievery particularly regarding the work of Ole Romer and epicycloid gears. If you are looking for a reference try p344 of Roemer and the first determination of the velocity of light by I B Cohen. Leibniz wrote to Bernoulli about the true origin of the work on most efficient gear shape. Thepossumdance ( talk) 00:46, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
At the moment de la Hire's portrait in this article is a rather poor low-resolution drawing of unknown origin, probably obtained from the MacTutor History of Mathematics website.
A much better image can be found here.
I propose that we replace the current one with this one. AstroLynx ( talk) 13:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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Should this title be moved to Philippe de La Hire? Regards Gangleri | Th | T 19:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
The death date appears to be off one year, 1718 as given in the Catholic Encyclopedia, and Larousse. nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu
There should be a section mentioning his multiple acts of intellectual thievery particularly regarding the work of Ole Romer and epicycloid gears. If you are looking for a reference try p344 of Roemer and the first determination of the velocity of light by I B Cohen. Leibniz wrote to Bernoulli about the true origin of the work on most efficient gear shape. Thepossumdance ( talk) 00:46, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
At the moment de la Hire's portrait in this article is a rather poor low-resolution drawing of unknown origin, probably obtained from the MacTutor History of Mathematics website.
A much better image can be found here.
I propose that we replace the current one with this one. AstroLynx ( talk) 13:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)