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<p><b>Alexis Claude Clairaut</b> (; ; 13 May 1713 - 17 May 1765) was a French mathematician, <a href="page.php?w=astronomer">astronomer</a>, and physicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir <a href="page.php?w=Isaac_Newton">Isaac Newton</a> had outlined in the <a href="page.php?w=Principia_Mathematica_Philosophiae_Naturalis">Principia</a> of 1687. Clairaut was one of the key figures in the expedition to the <a href="page.php?w=S%C3%A1pmi">Lapland</a> that helped to confirm</p><p>
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