Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de

Michael R Lynn, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002470

1698–1759 French savant who defended Newtonian physics and argued in favour of epigenesis.

Keywords: biology; physics; mathematics; generation

 Further Reading
    book Maupertuis PLM de (1756) Oeuvres (4 vols). Lyons: Jean-Marie Bruyset.
    book Maupertuis PLM de (1997) Vénus physique. Preface by Mary Terrall. Paris: Diderot.
    book Beeson D (1992) Maupertuis: an intellectual biography. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
    book Brunet P (1929) Maupertuis: étude biographique. Paris: A. Blanchard.
    Terrall M (1990) The culture of science in Frederick the Great's Berlin. History of Science 28: 333–364.
    Terrall M (1992) Representing the Earth's shape: the polemics surrounding Maupertuis's expedition to Lapland. Isis 83: 218–237.
    Terrall M (1996) Salon, academy, and boudoir: generation and desire in Maupertuis's science of life. Isis 87: 217–229.

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Lynn, Michael R(Apr 2001) Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002470]