Maupertuis
Americannoun
noun
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The great Claude-Nicolas Ledoux designed a “Maison des gardes agricoles” in the small town of Maupertuis that looks like a sphere poised on a square lawn.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2010
It had obvious defects: it could not, for example, explain the inheritance of characteristics from the father; in 1752 Maupertuis showed that polydactylism could be inherited in the male as well as the female line.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The village of Maupertuis lay quite close to the estate.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
In 1786 it was taken to Maupertuis and placed in a black marble sarcophagus.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
His feuds with Betzki, the Empress’s faithful factotum, were as acrid as the feuds between Voltaire and Maupertuis.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
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