The Shadow Effect and the Case of Félix Tisserand
By William McLaughlin, Sylvia Miller
The most eminent astronomer who never came to popular attention was lost in the shadow of his countryman, Pierre-Simon Laplace
This Article From Issue
May-June 2004
Volume 92, Number 3
Page 262
DOI: 10.1511/2004.47.262
The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once remarked that an institution was the "lengthened shadow of one man," and that all of history could be resolved into the biography of "a few stout and earnest persons."
Image courtesy of the Paris Observatory.
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