Historical images and photographs

All come from Wikimedia Commons. We use the thumbnails provided by Commons, unedited.

  • Portrait of Laplace in the robes of chancellor of the Senate, posthumous painting by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (1838): source page · public domain.
  • Beaumont-en-Auge, Place du Colonel Langlois and the church of Saint-Sauveur, photo by DimiTalen (2024): source page · CC0.
  • Portrait of Jean le Rond d’Alembert, by Catherine Lusurier (1777): source page · public domain.
  • The Military School in Paris at dawn, photo by DXR: source page · CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The calorimeter of Lavoisier and Laplace, engraving by John Pass after Henry Lascelles (1801): source page · public domain.
  • Marble standard metre on rue de Vaugirard, Paris, photo by Airair: source page · CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Laplace’s tomb in the Colbert-Laplace mausoleum, Saint-Julien-de-Mailloc, photo by Antoine Rex: source page · CC0.
  • Title page of the Exposition of the System of the World, second edition (1798), page 3 of the digitized file: source page · public domain.
  • Title page and the page with the passage about the intelligence from the Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, 1840 edition, pages 3 and 12 of the digitized file: source page · public domain.
  • Page 90 of the Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: source page · public domain.
  • The first two volumes of the Treatise on Celestial Mechanics (1799), photo from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics: source page · public domain.
  • Statue of Laplace in Beaumont-en-Auge, photo by Roland Godefroy: source page · CC BY-SA 4.0.

Figures made for the blog

The cover and the four interactive figures (the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, the relaxation of Laplace’s equation on a plate, the sum of dice compared with the normal curve, and the rule of succession) are original illustrations, with text in each of the site’s languages. The map and the graph of Laplace’s journey are generated from the file data/viagens/laplace.yaml.

Record

The file data/laplace_imagens.json records the source, licence, verification date and SHA-256 hash of each downloaded image. The historical sources for each topic appear at the end of each post.

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