You might be most familiar with sonography's role in the field of obstetrics to produce an ultrasound image of an unborn baby. Sonography is also used to analyze tissues and organs of the body, such as the heart, eyes and abdomen.
Etymology: Pierre S. de Laplace, French physicist, 1749-1827. a principle of physics that the tension on the wall of a sphere is the product of the pressure times the radius of the chamber and the tension is inversely related to the thickness of the wall.
Bayesâs theorem wasnât actually formulated by Thomas Bayes. Instead it was developed by the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace. Laplace believed in scientific determinism â given the location of every particle in the universe and enough computing power we could predict the universe perfectly.