Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (/ˌmoʊpərˈtwiː/; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters...

calculus. She was also tutored by Bernoulli's prodigy students, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut. Frederick the Great of Prussia...

8 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759) November 28 – Charlotta...

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...

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...

Rio de Janeiro in 1711 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753)...

contracting the illness a second time. In the 18th century, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis experimented with scorpion venom and observed that certain...

to suggest that organisms had common descent was Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis in his 1751 Essai de Cosmologie, Transmutation of species entered wider...

figure of the Revolution Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (1765–1854), fought in the American Revolutionary War Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759), French...

researchers, and using it, the proponents of the theory, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Buffon and John Needham, came to the conclusion that there...