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	Pierre Louis Moreau De Maupertuis - LoveToKnow 1911
		PIERRE LOUIS MOREAU DE MAUPERTUIS (1698-1759), French mathematician and astronomer, was born at St Malo on the 17th of July 1698.
		In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin on the invitation of the king of Prussia, and took part in the battle of Mollwitz, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians.
		Maupertuis was unquestionably a man of considerable ability as a mathematician, but his restless, gloomy disposition involved him in constant quarrels, of which his controversies with Konig and Voltaire during the latter part of his life furnish examples.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pierre_Louis_Moreau_De_Maupertuis (305 words)

	Pierre Louis Maupertuis Summary
		Maupertuis, based on his exposition of Newton (with the help of his mentor Johan Bernoulli) predicted that the Earth should be oblate, while his rival Jacques Cassini measured it astronomically to be prolate.
		In 1736 Maupertuis acted as chief of the expedition sent by King Louis XV to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of the meridian; his results, which he published in a book detailing his procedures along with an adventure narrative of the expedition, essential settled the controversy in his favor.
		In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia, and took part in the Battle of Mollwitz, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians.
	www.bookrags.com /Pierre_Louis_Maupertuis (3659 words)

	Knowledge King - Pierre Louis Maupertuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 - July 27, 1759) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
		In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia, and took part in the Battle of Mollwitz, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians.
		Maupertuis' difficult disposition involved him in constant quarrels, of which his controversies with Samuel König and Voltaire during the latter part of his life are examples.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/p/pi/pierre_louis_maupertuis.html (335 words)

	Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis - Wikipedia
		Maupertuis war nicht nur ein Mathematiker und guter Kenner der Theorien Newtons und Leibniz', ihm war auch klar, dass die Theorien Newtons nicht ausreichten, um biologische Phänomene zu erklären.
		Maupertuis nahm an, dass, ausgehend von diesen durch spontane Schöpfung entstandenen Organismen, sich durch starke Mutationen neue Spezies entwickelten.
		Maupertuis war Essentialist in dem Sinne, dass er jede Spezies, die sich von ihren Nachbarn unterschied, auf die taxonomische Landkarte setzte.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre-Louis_de_Maupertuis (949 words)

	Station Information - Pierre Lemonnier
		Pierre Charles Lemonnier (November 23, 1715 - May 31, 1799) was a French astronomer.
		He was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairault on their geodetical expedition to Lapland.
		In his lectures at the college de France he first publicly expounded the analytical theory of gravitation, and his timely patronage secured the services of JJ Lalande for astronomy.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pierre_lemonnier.html (404 words)

	Pierre Louis de Maupertuis
		Pierre Louis de Maupertuis was born 28 September 1698 in Saint Malo, France.
		Maupertuis was a popular socialite, who recited his own poems and accompanied himself and the guitar.
		Maupertuis reported that the length of one degree of meridian in Lapland was 57,437.9 (The toise was an old unit equal to 1.949 metres).
	eduwww.mikkeli.fi /opetus/myk/pv/comenius/maupertuis.htm (861 words)

	Pierre Bouguer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1729 he published Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière, the object of which is to define the quantity of light lost by passing through a given extent of the atmosphere.
		In 1730 he was made professor of hydrography at Havre, and succeeded Pierre Louis Maupertuis as associate geometer of the Academy of Sciences.
		He was afterwards promoted in the Academy to the place of Maupertuis, and went to reside in Paris.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Bouguer (352 words)

	Pierre Charles Le Monnier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Charles Le Monnier (November 23, 1715 – May 31, 1799) was a French astronomer.
		He was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675-1757), also an astronomer, was professor of philosophy at the college d'Harcourt.
		In his lectures at the Collège de France he first publicly expounded the analytical theory of gravitation, and his timely patronage secured the services of J.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Charles_Lemonnier (452 words)

	Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Wikipédia
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (7 juillet 1698, Saint-Malo — 27 juillet 1759) fut un mathématicien et astronome.
		En 1736 il agit comme chef de l'expédition envoyée par Louis XV en Laponie pour mesurer la longueur d'un degré du méridien, et à son retour il devint membre de presque toutes les sociétés scientifiques d'Europe.
		Maupertuis était mathématicien et fin connaisseur des théories de Newton et de Leibniz, mais il avait compris que les théories physiques de Newton étaient insuffisantes pour expliquer les phénomènes biologiques.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Louis_Maupertuis (614 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		'''Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis''' (July 17, 1698 – July 27, 1759) was a France French mathematician and astronomer.
		Käymäjärvi Inscriptions) In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia, and took part in the Battle of Mollwitz, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians.
		With regard to Maupertuis the question is whether or not Maupertuis had (1) an internally coherent, yet externally robust, theoretical system, (2) an atheistic system or, at a minimum, a non-mystical and thus, scientific system, and/or (3) a broad, overarching theory that tied together all of the available evidence.
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	Maupertuis
		Maupertuis hoped that the principle might unify the laws of the universe and combined it with an attempted proof of the existence of God.
		Maupertuis was strongly defended by Euler but he used his position as director of the Academy to have it declare publicly that König had forged the quotation.
		This Maupertuis did in 1754 but then he was apparently flmailed by a girl who claimed that he was the father of her child.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Maupertuis.html (2335 words)

	MOREAU DE MAUPERTUIS (... - Artículo en línea de la información acerca de MOREAU DE MAUPERTUIS (...
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		MAUPERTUIS, MOREAU DE (1698-1759) DE LOUIS DE PIERRE
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /es/MAR_MEC/MAUPERTUIS_MOREAU_DE_1698_1759_.html (901 words)

	Charles LaCondamine & Peru and Pierre Maupertuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A joint issue of France and Finland commemorates simultaneous 1736 French expeditions to the equator in South America and the polar regions of Lapland to determine the shape of the earth, generally acknowledged to be spherical.
		Charles LaCondamine (1701-1774) in Peru and Pierre Maupertuis (1698-1759) in Lapland surveyed the curvature of the meridians and found that the earth was somewhat flattened at the pole, and more curved at the equator, giving it the shape of an oblate spheroid.
		This confirmed Newton's theory put forth in the Principia that the centrifugal force of the rotating earth caused it to be distended at the equator, where the speed of rotation was greatest, and flattened at the poles, where the speed was zero - as indicated on the Finnish stamp.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/Graphicartists/Prints/scistamp/meas/05.html (173 words)

	References for Maupertuis
		J-P Martin, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : maitre d'oeuvre de l'expédition de Laponie (1736-1737), in H Hecht (ed.), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : Eine Bilanz nach 300 Jahren (Baden-Baden, 1999), 57-69.
		De la cycloide à l'ellipso•de aplati en passant par le "Newtonianisme" : années parisiennes, in H Hecht (ed.), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : Eine Bilanz nach 300 Jahren (Baden-Baden, 1999), 17-33.
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : Lebensdaten, in H Hecht (ed.), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : Eine Bilanz nach 300 Jahren (Baden-Baden, 1999), 525-526.
	turnbull.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/References/Maupertuis.html (517 words)

	Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
		Maupertuis was the most important among Emilie's scientific friends and it was he who introduced her to Clairaut, Koenig and Jean Bernoulli, who were also her tutors in higher mathematics.
		Letters to Maupertuis at the end of 1733 and the beginning of 1734 are full of requests that he would come and teach her something new.
		Maupertuis gained notoriety for his participation in verifying Newton's theory that the earth was flattened at the poles.
	www.visitvoltaire.com /e_maupertuis_large.htm (408 words)

	Pierre Louis Moureau de Maupertuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Maupertuis, a member of the Royal Society from
		In 1738 he led an expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of longitude, confirming Newton's theory on the exact shape of the earth.
		In 1741, his Essai de cosmologie introduced the theory of the survival of the fittest, although few gave the idea much credence before Charles Darwin gave it a sounder foundation.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/People/maupert.html (135 words)

	Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was born on September 28, 1698 in Saint Malo, Bretagne, France.
		After 2 years of study at the Collège de la Marche in Paris, he had a short stay in the Netherlands, before he joined the military and became a Lieutenance at the Musketiers in Lille in 1719.
		In 1728 he travelled to London and was made a member of the Royal Academy, and in 1729, travelled to Basel to study mechanics and differential calculus with Johann Bernoulli (I).
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/maupertuis.html (356 words)

	La terre: une orange ou un citron? Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), Philosophe
		Selon la théorie de Descartes (dite "du tourbillon"), la rotation de la terre sur elle-même lui donnerait une forme de citron, c'est à dire qu'elle serait pointue autour des pôles.
		On avait déjà effectué de nombreux travaux en France, et l'on attendait d'ailleurs d'autres résultats d'Amérique du Sud (dans l'actuel Equateur), où l'on avait dépêché une expédition semblable en 1735.
		Maupertuis était partisan de Newton, ainsi que ses compagnons, parmi lesquels se trouvaient trois autres académiciens français: Claude Clairaut, Charles Le Monnier et Louis Camus, un secrétaire, un dessinateur, et le scientifique suédois Anders Celsius.
	www.tornedalen.net /maupertuis/french/data-fr.htm (496 words)

	Imago Mundi - Pierre Moreau de Maupertuis
		Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (géomètre né le 28 septembre 1698 à Saint-Malo, mort le 27 juillet 1759 à; Bâle) - Il fit sous la direction du géomètre Fr.
		Là il eut de violents démêlés d'abord avec Samuel Knig, membre de l'Académie, à propos de la paternité du principe de moindre action.
		Maupertuis avait un orgueil et une susceptibilité extrêmes.
	www.cosmovisions.com /Maupertuis.htm (391 words)

	Pierre Louis Maupertuis biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 – July 27, 1759) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
		A crater on the Moon is named after him.
		fr:Pierre Louis Maupertuis pl:Pierre Louis Maupertuis sl:Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
	pierre-louis-maupertuis.biography.ms (333 words)

	Pierre Louis de Maupertuis - De Maupertuis gradmätningsexpedition i Tornedalen 1736-1737
		Voltaire försökte i många satirer och även annars ringakta Maupertuis betydelse som vetenskapsman.
		Maupertuis publicerade förutom sina matematiska verk även böcker i geografi, astronomi och kosmologi.
		Akademiker Pierre Lois Moreau de Maupertuis som ledare för den franska kungliga vetenskapsakademins gradmätningsexpedition till lappmarkerna.
	www.rovaniemi.fi /lapinkavijat/maupertuis/maupertuis_sv.html (144 words)

	Författare - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) was a French astronomer and mathematician.
		Maupertuis was not only a keen scientist, he was also open to the beauties of the Nordic countryside.
		Further study: Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de, Jordens figur.
	www.overtornea.se /kultur_fritid/ottar/engelska/maupertuiseng.htm (186 words)

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	Maupertuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pierre de Maupertuis became a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1731.
		Maupertuis' measurements verified Newton's predictions that the Earth would be an oblate speroid.
		Maupertuis was accused by Samuel König of plagiarizing Leibniz's work but he was defended by Euler.
	www.bg-rams.ac.at /intranet/Physik/history/Maupertuis.html (223 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Mathematics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis[pyer lwE mOrO´ du mOpertUE´] Pronunciation Key, 1698–1759, French mathematician and astronomer.
		In 1740 he went to Berlin upon the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia, who later placed him in charge of the new academy.
		Besides his numerous astronomical writings, including Discours sur la figure des astres (1732) and Discours sur la parallaxe de la lune (1741), he wrote a work setting forth a mechanistic view of the universe, Essai de cosmologie (1750), and several biological studies.
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