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Mairan is a
lunar impact crater that is
located on a
highland peninsula between Oce****
Procellarum to the west and Mare
Imbrium to the east. To the north-northeast...
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Messier 43 or M43, also
known as De
Mairan's Nebula and NGC 1982, is a star-forming
nebula with a
prominent H II
region in the
equatorial constellation...
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Mairan (26
November 1678 – 20
February 1771) was a
French natural philosopher (physicist), born in the town of Béziers on 26
November 1678. De
Mairan...
- Magazine. Wilson, Lionel; Head,
James W. (2003). "Lunar Gruit****sen and
Mairan domes:
Rheology and mode of emplacement".
Journal of
Geophysical Research...
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lower them at night, and
experiments done by Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de
Mairan on
mimosas in 1729
provided the
first evidence of
biological clocks. Mimosa...
- Réponse de
Madame la
Marquise du Chastelet, a la
lettre que M. de
Mairan. D'Ortous de
Mairan,
secretary of the
Academy of Sciences, had
published a set of...
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Myron of
Eleutherae (480–440 BC) (/
ˈmaɪrən/;
Ancient Gr****: Μύρων, Myrōn [mý.rɔːn]) was an
Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th
century BC.
Alongside three...
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movement of
plant leaves by the
French scientist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de
Mairan. In 1751,
Swedish botanist and
naturalist Carl
Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)...
- de
Vignerot du Plessis,
Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Jean-Jacques
Dortous de
Mairan,
Henri François d'Aguesseau,
Alexis Clairaut.
Front row,
right to left:...
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another fellow Cartesian,
Pierre Sylvain Regis, as well as
Dortous de
Mairan. De
Mairan was
sympathetic to the
views of
Baruch Spinoza, and felt that he had...
