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
This ingenious system is not dissimilar to that of Maupertuis, who thought that the mysteries of generation could be explained by the usual laws of elective attraction.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
For an introduction to the writings of Maupertuis I am indebted to an article by Professor Lovejoy in Popular Sci.
From Evolution in Modern Thought by Weismann, August
Amongst them was De Lanzy, the celebrated mathematician, and friend of Maupertuis.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.
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