Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Main Works

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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