Pierre Laplace--People in Osho's Talks

aka: Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace

French astronomer, scientist, mathematician...

sometimes called the "French Newton"

postulated on the stability of the solar system, black
holes, advanced mathematics...

It happened that Pierre Laplace was a
mathematician, an astronomer, who in Napoleon’s
time wrote a ponderous five-volume work on
celestial mechanics. In it, using Newton’s law of
gravity, he painstakingly worked out the motions of
the solar system in finest detail.

Napoleon, who fancied himself – with only partial
justification – an intellectual, leafed through the
early volumes, and said to Laplace, “I see no
mention of God in your explanation of the motions
of the planets...”

--Osho
Ancient Music in the Pines, ch. 9

Laplace, Pierre
1749-1827 78 years