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Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
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French mathematician and astronomer, born at St. Malo; went to Lapland to measure a degree of longitude, to ascertain the figure of the earth; wrote a book "On the Figure of the Earth"; was invited to Berlin by Frederick the Great, and made President of the Academy of Science there; was satirised by Voltaire much to the annoyance of the king, who patronised him and prided himself in the institution of which he was the head (1698-1759).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/maupertuis-pierre-louis-moreau-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/maupertuis-pierre-louis-moreau-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
