Complex sentence: Laplace is remembered as one of the greatest scientists of all time, sometimes referred to as a "French Newton" or "Newton of France", with a phenomenal natural mathematical faculty superior to any of his contemporaries.
Split into simpler sentences: Laplace is remembered as one of the greatest scientists of all time. Sometimes referred to as the "French Newton" or "Newton of France", he possessed a phenomenal natural mathematical faculty superior to that of any of his contemporaries.