Author:Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
| ←Author Index: Ma | Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759) |
| Famed 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[edit]
- Accord between different laws of Nature that seemed incompatible (1744)
- Derivation of the laws of motion and equilibrium from a metaphysical principle (1746)
About[edit]
- “Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 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.
