Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such <br />🧵<br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laplace</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LaplacesDemon</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ImaginaryFriends</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn't really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science.<br /><br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laplace</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LaplacesDemon</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ImaginaryFriends</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
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