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
It was decided to entrust a similar expedition to the North to Maupertuis.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
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 Baird, Henry Martyn
The French camp was, as I have said, rather more than two miles away from the defensive position of Maupertuis.
From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire
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