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

Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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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