# Pierre-Simon Laplace — Passages from the Life of a Philosopher character guide

> Pierre-Simon Laplace in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Laplace

**First appearance:** 0024-xiv-recollections-of-laplace-biot-and-humboldt

## Who they are

Famed French mathematician and astronomer, met by Babbage.

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