Main Works
- Sur la figure de la terre (1738)
- Discours sur la parallaxe de la lune (1741)
- Discours sur la figure des astres (1742)
- Eléments de la géographie (1742)
- Lettre sur la comète de 1742 (1742)
- Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles (1744, English translation)
- Vénus physique (1745)
- Astronomie nautique (1745 and 1746)
- Les loix du mouvement et du repos déduites d'un principe metaphysique (1746, English translation)
- Essai de philosophie morale (1749).
- Essai de cosmologie (1750).
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