The figure of the earth, determined from observations made by order of the French King, at the polar circle: by Messrs de Maupertuis, Camus, Clairaut, Le Monnier, members of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the abbé Outhier, correspondent of the Academy, and Mr. Celsius, professor of astronomy at Upsal : translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis.
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1738)
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
London : T. Cox ..., 1738
1738
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Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)
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Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)
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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician and astronomer. Maupertuis headed (1736-1737) the scientific expedition to Lapland with the objective to confirm Newtonʼs theory of the flattening of the earth at the poles.
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