 | Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (/ˌmoʊpərˈtwiː/; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters... 28 KB (3,194 words) - 23:17, 25 April 2024 |
 | 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... 29 KB (3,555 words) - 11:20, 3 December 2023 |
 | 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... 51 KB (6,077 words) - 22:22, 15 April 2024 |
8 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759) November 28 – Charlotta... 4 KB (354 words) - 18:46, 1 January 2023 |
 | contracting the illness a second time. In the 18th century, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis experimented with scorpion venom and observed that certain... 119 KB (13,493 words) - 07:19, 29 April 2024 |
 | Rio de Janeiro in 1711 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753)... 27 KB (2,416 words) - 10:36, 1 April 2024 |
 | researchers, and using it, the proponents of the theory, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Buffon and John Needham, came to the conclusion that there... 30 KB (3,521 words) - 13:57, 25 April 2024 |
 | (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... 23 KB (2,547 words) - 09:39, 1 February 2024 |
to suggest that organisms had common descent was Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis in his 1751 Essai de Cosmologie, Transmutation of species entered wider... 18 KB (2,010 words) - 18:56, 22 March 2024 |
figure of the Revolution Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (1765–1854), fought in the American Revolutionary War Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759), French... 5 KB (781 words) - 20:20, 17 July 2022 |
 | 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... 20 KB (1,742 words) - 08:29, 28 April 2024 |
 | led by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis with the scientists included being Alexis Claude Clairaut, Charles Le Monnier and Charles Etienne Louis Camus... 3 KB (314 words) - 19:12, 2 July 2023 |
 | La Mettrie, Louis de Jaucourt, Jean-François Marmontel, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Montesquieu, François Quesnay, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Anne... 52 KB (6,580 words) - 13:45, 12 April 2024 |
 | George Turnbull, Scottish philosopher (d. 1748) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) July 19 Johann Jakob Bodmer... 27 KB (3,215 words) - 05:55, 12 March 2024 |
 | Vincent de Gournay, French economist (b. 1712) July 6 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (b. 1696) July 27 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French... 19 KB (2,194 words) - 20:40, 24 February 2024 |
 | expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius... 2 KB (138 words) - 22:27, 8 October 2023 |
 | Subsequently, his poem received considerable notice, even from Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Kleist also wrote some odes, idylls and elegies, and a small... 9 KB (1,103 words) - 16:35, 17 March 2023 |
 | 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... 84 KB (10,466 words) - 10:26, 19 April 2024 |
 | translated into Finnish by Osmo Pekonen, Kuopio: Hai, 2016 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis: Fyysinen Venus (Vénus physique, 1745), translated into Finnish... 9 KB (984 words) - 00:03, 17 April 2024 |
 | 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... 5 KB (529 words) - 02:32, 18 July 2023 |
American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans. 17 July – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) 6 September – Jean Thurel... 2 KB (161 words) - 12:50, 17 June 2022 |
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... 332 bytes (36,566 words) - 21:28, 16 November 2023 |
 | 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... 63 KB (3,749 words) - 03:41, 12 March 2024 |
Aylmer Maude Henry Maudsley Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Jakob Mauvillon Hiram Stevens Maxim Friedrich Max Müller... 58 KB (4,724 words) - 07:23, 20 October 2023 |
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... 79 KB (160 words) - 15:16, 13 February 2024 |
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)... 123 KB (10,047 words) - 13:07, 12 April 2024 |
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... 148 KB (438 words) - 20:05, 18 February 2024 |
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... 99 KB (741 words) - 15:21, 28 November 2023 |
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... 78 KB (272 words) - 04:05, 21 April 2024 |