Just before he died, J. H. Lambert offered to name the newly discovered moon of Venus after him, but he refused the offer because he didn't believe the satellite actually existed.
Just before he died, J. H. Lambert offered to name the newly discovered moon of Venus after him, but he refused the offer because he didn't believe the satellite actually existed. Probably the illegitimate son of the chevalier Destouches, his first name comes from the church on whose steps he was left as an infant. FTP, name this Frenchman, whose Treatise on Dynamics introduces a principle which states that Newton's third law of motion holds for moving particles, best known for the scientific articles he contributed to the encyclopedia of Diderot.
Just before he died, J. H. Lambert offered to name the newly discovered moon of Venus after him, but he refused the offer because he didn't believe the satellite actually existed.
Jean Le Rond {d'Alembert}