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Maupertuis

American  
[moh-per-twee] / moʊ pɛrˈtwi /

noun

  1. Pierre Louis Moreau de 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.


Maupertuis British  
/ mopɛrtɥi /

noun

  1. Pierre Louis Moreau de (pjɛr lwi mɔro də). 1698–1759, French mathematician, who originated the principle of least action (or Maupertuis principle)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The National Trust for Jersey said it had secured the rights to acquire the land near Maupertuis Farm in St Clement and hoped to complete the purchase shortly.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The trust said the latest acquisition would help preserve the agricultural heritage of Maupertuis Farm and the surrounding area.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

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

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