Author:Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
(1698–1759)

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nenowned for proving experimentally that the Earth is oblate; along with Euler and (possibly) Leibniz, discoverer of Maupertuis' principle, which states that physical systems follow a trajectory in space that minimizes an action integral

Works

Accord between different laws of Nature that seemed incompatible (1744)
Derivation of the laws of motion and equilibrium from a metaphysical principle (1746)

Works about de Maupertuis

"Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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