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6.50" x 10.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
12.00" x 15.50"
Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French Polymath Framed Print
by Science Source
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French Polymath framed print by Science Source. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Color enhanced portrait of Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 - July 27, 1759), a French polymath who made contributions to the fields... more
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Color enhanced portrait of Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 - July 27, 1759), a French polymath who made contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, astronomy, and geography. In 1723 he was admitted to the Academie des Sciences. In 1736 he made an expedition to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of arc of the meridian to determine the shape of the earth. He is credited with having invented the principle of least action (variational principle), when applied to the action of a mechanical system, can be used to obtain the equations of motion for that system. He proposed a theory of generation (reproduction) in which organic matter possessed a self-organizing intelligence that was comparable to the contemporary chemical concept of affinities. He explored heredity, collecting evidence that confirmed the contributions of both sexes and treated variations as statistical phenomena. Historians of science point to his work i...
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