Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3845. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Mathematician, born in Saint Malo, France, published on mathematics, geography, and astronomy, introduced NEWTON's theory of gravitation in France. He developed his theory of dynamics with the principle of least action, a way to determine the orbit of a body by a minimization technique. As a unifying principle, he though that it could be a proof of the existence of God. He went to Lapland in 1...

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