Author:Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
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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
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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Works[edit]
- 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[edit]
- "Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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