Clairaut

The calculation was difficult: Clairaut discovered the means of effecting it.

Truly, it will not equal that of Newton, who had received the spark divine; nor even that of his collaborator Clairaut.

I shall begin to be jealous of this little impertinent Mademoiselle Clairaut.

Clairaut made this memorable communication to the Academy of Sciences on the 14th of November, 1758.

D'Alembert, Clairaut, and others attacked the problem, but were led to just the same result.