Alexis Bouvard

Standard Name: Bouvard, Alexis

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Friends, Associates	Mary Somerville	In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace , Siméon Poisson , Louis Poinsot , Émile Mathieu , François Arago , Jean-Baptiste Biot , Alexis Bouvard , Georges Cuvier , Alexander von Humboldt , and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac . Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 19, 21-4

The planet Neptune was discovered as a result of work by English and French astronomers (the latter using a telescope in Berlin).

Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.

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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under John Couch Adams

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