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    Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (/ˌmoʊpərˈtwiː/; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters...
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  • In classical mechanics, Maupertuis's principle (named after Pierre Louis Maupertuis, 1698 – 1759) states that the path followed by a physical system is...
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    Scholia has a profile for Louis de Broglie (Q83331). Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbroʊɡli/, also US: /də broʊˈɡliː, də ˈbrɔɪ/;...
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    Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar whose work was important...
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    Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 (Netherlands) Pierre Bouguer 1698–1758 (France & Peru) Pierre de Maupertuis 1698–1759 (France) Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765...
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    he was made professor of hydrography at Le Havre, and succeeded Pierre Louis Maupertuis as associate geometer of the Academy of Sciences. He also invented...
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    1736, aged only 20. He was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut on their geodetical expedition for measuring...
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  • the de Broglie wavelength. Whenever the value of the action approaches the Planck constant, quantum effects are significant. Pierre Louis Maupertuis and...
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    that the inscriptions were not of runic character. Celsius and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) visited the stone around 11 April 1737, during their...
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    calculus. She was also tutored by Bernoulli's prodigy students, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut. Frederick the Great of Prussia...
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  • stationary-action principle. Maupertuis also led the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator. Terrall also described and analyzed the way Maupertuis used literary techniques...
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    measurements near the Arctic Circle. The expedition to Meänmaa was led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis. As Swedish representative, professor Anders Celsius joined the...
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  • Giovanni Domenico Maraldi Claude-Louis Mathieu Pierre Louis Maupertuis Alain Maury Victor Mauvais Pierre Méchain Jean-Claude Merlin Charles Messier François Mignard...
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    diameter. It was named after French geodesist and mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis. Maupertuis is a member of the Vesta family (401), a giant asteroid family...
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  • figure of the Revolution Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (1765–1854), fought in the American Revolutionary War Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759), French...
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  • shortest length and least time. Building on the early work of Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Leonhard Euler, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange defining versions of...
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    Maupertuis (French pronunciation: [mopɛʁtɥi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France Communes of the Manche department...
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    François Nicole, Pierre Rémond de Montmort, Émilie du Châtelet and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are some of his students. He was named "associé géomètre" at the...
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  • 8 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759) November 28 – Charlotta...
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    Laplace's demon (category Pierre-Simon Laplace)
    in 1773, particularly in France. Variations can be found in Maupertuis (1756), Nicolas de Condorcet (1768), Baron D'Holbach (1770), and an undated fragment...
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  • Maupertuis Bay (French: Baie Maupertuis) is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south-west coastline of Kangaroo Island. It...
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  • and technology involved some significant events. Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the Earth...
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    German mathematician. Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for...
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    times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield,...
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    Gottfried Zinn, German anatomist and botanist (born 1727) July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (born 1698) September 10 – Ferdinand Konščak...
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    visitors, including luminaries like the scientist-philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis. The conversation ranged over every topic imaginable, always enlivened...
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    translated into Finnish by Osmo Pekonen, Kuopio: Hai, 2016 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis: Fyysinen Venus (Vénus physique, 1745), translated into Finnish...
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    Rio de Janeiro in 1711 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753)...
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  • France. unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home in Basel, Switzerland. John Armstrong as...
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    problems of classical mechanics, generalising the results of Euler and Maupertuis. Euler was very impressed with Lagrange's results. It has been stated...
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