Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis created the least action principle, which he claimed, among other things, proved the existence of God. Something of a Renaissance man, he also participated in a famous scientific expedition to Lapland to measure the...

A mathematician, biologist, and astronomer, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a strong proponent of Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation, helped confirm Newton's theory on the exact shape of Earth, and formulated the principle of least action...

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau De(1698–1759) Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, the French scientist and philosopher, was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany. Elected in 1723 to the Académie des Sciences (and to the Royal Society in 1728), he...

French astronomer, mathematician, and biologist A mathematician, biologist, and astronomer, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a strong proponent of Sir Issac Newton's theory of gravitation, helped confirm Newton's theory on the exact...

1698-1759 French mathematician whose Lapland expedition (1736), in conjunction with Charles La Condamine's 1735 Peru expedition, confirmed Isaac Newton's prediction that Earth is an oblate spheroid—bulging at the equator and...

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 – July 27, 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He is often credited with having invented the principle of least...

The unpublished papers of Pierre Louis Foucault, one of the district commissioners of police of Paris, provide evidence about the geography and sociology of the sodomitical subculture of the capital and about the ways in which sexual relations between men were experienced, regulated, and...

From staff reports Portland Press Herald (Maine) 02-26-2005 Cocaine dealer in York County gets a life term ; Prosecutors say Ricardo Pierre-Louis ran a busy drug ring and committed violent acts while doing it. Byline: From staff reports Edition: FINAL Section: Local &...