Pierre Louis Moreau De Maupertuis
1698-1759
French mathematician whose Lapland expedition (1736), in conjunction with Charles La Condamine's 1735 Peru expedition, confirmed Isaac Newton'...
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Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau De (1698-1759)
French astronomer, mathematician, and biologist
A mathematician, biologist, and astronomer, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a strong proponent of S...
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Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau De(1698–1759)
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, the French scientist and philosopher, was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany. Elected in 1723 to the Académie d...
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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis created the least action principle, which he claimed, among other things, proved the existence of God. Something of a Renaissance man, he also participated in a famou...
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A mathematician, biologist, and astronomer, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a strong proponent of Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation, helped confirm Newton's theory on the exact shape of E...
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