Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters · France · Academics · Lived 1698 to 1759 · aged 60
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Something wrong?Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.
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Commemorating stamp of the French Geodesic Mission to Lapland.
Maupertuisiana (1753), published anonymously by Voltaire or König. On the cover is represented Don Quixote (Maupertuis) attacking the windmills with the broken lance and exclaiming "Tremoleu!". Underneath there is Sancho Panza (Euler) riding a saddle, while to the right a satyr exclaims: "This is how you get to the stars!"
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