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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Line engraving after R. Tournières, 1737.

Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Line engraving by J. Daullé and J.G. Wille, 1741, after R. Levrac-Tournières, 1737.

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis pointing out the length of a degree on the longitude of meridian in Lapland to two people. Etching, 1753.

Pierre Louis Moreau De Maupertuis - a precursor of Mendelian genetics? : an inquiry into the biological ideas of Maupertuis, the Mendelian principles of heredity and the nature of the percursor / by Iris Levine Sandler.

Actes de la journée Maupertuis : Créteil, ler décembre 1973.

Correspondance de Leonhard Euler avec P.-L. M. de Maupertuis et Frédéric II / publieé par Pierre Costabel [and others] ; en collaboration avec Emil A. Fellmann.

Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

La venere fisica / [Maupertuis].

[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis correspondence].

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 ... the Abbé Outhier ... and Mr. Celsius ... Translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis.

Dissertation physique à l'occasion du nègre blanc.

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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

La venere fisica / [Maupertuis].

[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis correspondence].

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 ... the Abbé Outhier ... and Mr. Celsius ... Translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis.

Dissertation physique à l'occasion du nègre blanc.

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Images from the collections

Images featuring Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Works from the collections

Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

La venere fisica / [Maupertuis].

[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis correspondence].

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 ... the Abbé Outhier ... and Mr. Celsius ... Translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis.

Dissertation physique à l'occasion du nègre blanc.

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