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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Mathematician
gptkb:Scientist
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gptkbp:academic_advisor
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gptkb:Émilie_du_Châtelet
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gptkbp:affiliation
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gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkb:Prussian_Academy_of_Sciences
Academy of Berlin
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:Enlightenment
scientific revolution
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gptkbp:birth_date
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1698-07-17
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gptkbp:birth_place
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gptkb:Saint-Malo
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gptkbp:child
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Pierre Maupertuis
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gptkbp:contribution
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geodesic measurements
philosophical ideas on nature
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gptkbp:death_date
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1759-07-27
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gptkbp:death_place
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gptkb:Basel
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:Mathematics
gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:philosophy_of_science
gptkb:philosophy
biology
geography
physics
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Leonhard_Euler
gptkb:Voltaire
gptkb:David_Hume
gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
gptkb:Jean_le_Rond_d'_Alembert
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:René_Descartes
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
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gptkbp:known_for
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the principle of least action
Maupertuis' principle
expedition to Lapland
work on the shape of the Earth
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gptkbp:member
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gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:French
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:L'_Ordre_de_la_Nature
Vénus physique
L' Essai de Cosmologie
La Cosmologie
La Physique.
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gptkbp:spouse
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Marie-Françoise de la Rochefoucauld
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Maupertuis'_principle_of_least_action
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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