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To Laplace, on receiving a copy of the Mécanique Céleste:
The first six months ,which I can spare will be employed in reading it.

— Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

Correspondance de Napoléon ler, 27 vendémiaire an VIII [19 October 1799] no. 4384 (1861), Vol. 6, I. Trans. Charles Coulston Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science (1997), 176.

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