Clairaut is a 8 letter English word.
You can make 245 anagrams from letters in Clairaut (aacilrtu).
The comet arrived at its perihelion on the thirteenth of March, only twenty-three days from the time assigned by Clairaut.
After long and persevering labour in this region, Voltaire consulted Clairaut on the progress he had made.
The comet made its predicted nearest approach to the Sun on March 13, 1759, just one month earlier than Clairaut had computed.
The calculation was difficult: Clairaut discovered the means of effecting it.
Clairaut calculated its return right within a month (p. 219).
Truly, it will not equal that of Newton, who had received the spark divine; nor even that of his collaborator Clairaut.
D'Alembert, Clairaut, and others attacked the problem, but were led to just the same result.
This generality increased tenfold the difficulties of the problem; neither Clairaut nor D'Alembert was, however, arrested by them.
Ultimately, Clairaut took into account a whole series of neglected terms, and it came out correct; thus verifying the theory.
Clairaut was then only eighteen, and was in the same year made a member of the Acadmie des sciences.