14 —_ Brief Chronological Sketch of the Life of Laplace. 
RITE sca ATA Bézout as examiner of the Royal Corps of Artille 
1782. —Demons ated “ dune maniére bien p lus générale,” that the flattened ellip- 
1784.—Published his work through De Barons entitled, “‘ Theory of ‘the motion and 
Elliptical Figure of the Planets 
1784?—June 24. Sat up four mi with ketone in forming water with oxygen 
and hydrogen. These riments were repeated before the Academy in 
January and February, 1785, and sienendnily and decisively confirmed 
by a series of experiments begun on the 23rd of May, and nies the 
7th of J June Ives, at the esos pe pe M. Lefevre de Gene 
1785.—Theory of f the figure of the Pheisee pub: 
, 4to. 
1787.—Dec. 19. An sediead the cause of the moon’s acceleration 
1788.—Announced his theory of J lage s satellites, in the SMisview de l Acade- 
mie, which appeared in 1 
1789 and 1790.—Continued his Petite des Marées. 
1796. —Dedicated to the council of Five aaa his “ —- dis = du 
onde.” 
1799.—Published Mad I and If of Mécanique Céleste. 
1799. 
—Appointed by the Consular oe on the 18th of Brumaire, (9th of 
: November,) Minister of rst 
1799.—Transferred to the eset ive Son ate 
1803.—Published Vol. III of the Mécanique Céleste. 
1803 n Vice President of the Sénat oH meen taariel 
1803.— do. Chancellor *“ with the title of Grand 
ordon of the Legion of H 
1805.—Published Vol. IV of the Mécanique Céles 
1811.—Nominated Counsellor to the Maternal Sontety: and President of the same. 
1812.—Théorie Analytique des Probabilités 
1814.—After having been Count of the Empire from 1806, and received eres favors 
from throne, he bene = his Im Imperial Mostar, and obtained a erage 
from Louis XVIII, at the eo 
1814.—Eseai ‘Philosophique des Probabilités. 
1816.—Nominated a member of the French Academy and 4 President of the commit- 
e for the reorganization of the ** Ecole Pence et 
1817.—President of French Academy. 
1821.—Précis of the History of Astronomy, 8vo. 
1825.—Fourth supplement to the Theorie des Probabilités. 
ie ere Céleste, Vol. V.t 
oe hart: May “i 
1827. inn au Ge vain du Traits de artanians Cite. Cloprins sur 
le manuscrit trouvé dans ses papiers.) 
* Bézout died in 
t The four first hing ork, were translated and made ready for the press, by the 
n. Nathaniel Bowditch of ripety between 1815 and 1817; = »~ publication was delayed in 
the alla that the revered author bagy = — some essential changes and modifications. cae: 
appearance of the fifth volume, in 1825, a death of the a et 1827, having howev 
ened this hope, rs learned and inotatigabl oppsa homens to publish . we 
his own expense, id of th an Academy. To sot: nor of 
the country, two volumes have seen the light: the third “a ‘probably appear in the 
next year, and we ma f ty 
This time being andere’ necessary on account of ‘the translator’s laborious occupation. 
