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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Émilie du Châtelet (redirect from Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet)
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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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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ISSN 0033-5770. PMID 20264553. S2CID 28185536. Sandler, Iris (1983). "Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis: A precursor of Mendel?". Journal of the History of Biology...
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contracting the illness a second time. In the 18th century, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis experimented with scorpion venom and observed that certain...
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intelligence promptly made an impression on such intellectuals as Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Voltaire. Two years later, he was in London, where he...
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researchers, and using it, the proponents of the theory, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Buffon and John Needham, came to the conclusion that there...
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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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to suggest that organisms had common descent was Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis in his 1751 Essai de Cosmologie, Transmutation of species entered wider...
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led by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, with the scientists included being Alexis Claude Clairaut, Charles Le Monnier and Charles Etienne Louis Camus...
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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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(1736 to 1744) and the Lapponian expedition in 1737 led by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Cassini was also the first to make successful measurements...
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La Mettrie, Louis de Jaucourt, Jean-François Marmontel, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Montesquieu, François Quesnay, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Anne...
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Subsequently, his poem received considerable notice, even from Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Kleist also wrote some odes, idylls and elegies, and a small...
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George Turnbull, Scottish philosopher (d. 1748) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) July 19 Johann Jakob Bodmer...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1771–72: Isle de France and Le Nécessaire)
Charles de Brosses (1709–77), Comte de Buffon (1707–88), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759) and Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807). The expedition...
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Vincent de Gournay, French economist (b. 1712) July 6 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (b. 1696) July 27 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French...
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expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius...
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Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Volume 6 (1964), pp. 174–75 (in German). Reinhold Koser, "Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 20 (1884), pp. 691–93...
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Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2008-03-23. Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de (1738). The figure of the earth. London. Outhier, Réginald...
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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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American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans. 17 July – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) 6 September – Jean Thurel...
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1690s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
George Turnbull, Scottish philosopher (d. 1748) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) July 19 Johann Jakob Bodmer...
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Aylmer Maude Henry Maudsley Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Jakob Mauvillon Hiram Stevens Maxim Friedrich Max Müller...
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1782 Chemist Israel Mauduit 1751-06-13 1708 – 14 June 1787 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 1728-06-27 ? 17 July 1698 – 27 July 1759 Douglas Mawson 1923-05-03...
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List of rose cultivars named after people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
United Kingdom) Maude Elizabeth (2000 — Beales, United Kingdom) Maupertuis (1888 — Moreau-Robert, France) Maurice Bernardin (1861 — Granger/Lévêque, France)...
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DF1 Aavasaksa, mountain in Finland (Lapland), one of the sites used by Maupertuis' expedition to determine the length of a degree of the meridian in 1736–1737...
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Tales of the Shadowmen (category Cultural depictions of Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan)
fiction. French translations of Tales of the Shadowmen entitled Les Compagnons de l'Ombre were published in France by publisher Riviere Blanche starting in...
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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
François de Cisternay 267 Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de 268 Bernoulli, Daniel 269 Kleist, Ewald Georg Von 270 La Condamine, Charles Marie de 271 Celsius...
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