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People


  • Pierre Louis Maupertuis
    Pierre Louis Maupertuis

    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a France mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Acad?mie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
     (1698-1759), mathematician
    Mathematician

    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
    , philosopher and man of letters
    Republic of Letters

    Republic of Letters is a phrase describing the phenomenon of increased correspondence in the form of Letter exchanged between the influential philosophers and other thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment....


Places

  • Maupertuis
    Maupertuis, Manche

    Maupertuis is a Communes of France in the Manche Departments of France in Normandy in northwestern France...
     (postal code: 50410, INSEE code: 50295), a commune in the Manche
    Manche

    Manche is a France Departments of France in Normandy named after La Manche , which is the French language name for the English Channel....
     département, in France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Maupertuis (crater)
    Maupertuis (crater)

    Maupertuis is the remnant of a moon impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It lies in the stretch of rugged terrain north of Sinus Iridum, a bay in the northwestern corner of Mare Imbrium....
    , a crater of the Moon that is named after Pierre Louis Maupertuis
  • Maleperduys
    Maleperduys

    Maleperduys is Reynard the Fox principal hideaway in the medieval literature of this figure of legend.Labyrinth Maleperduys is full of holes, crooked and long, with multiple exits, which Reynard can open and shut to elude his enemies....
     (Maupertuis), fictional castle of Reynard the Fox.


See also


  • Cherbourg Maupertus, Cherbourg-Octeville
    Cherbourg-Octeville

    Cherbourg-Octeville is a Communes of France in the Manche Departments of France in Normandy in northwestern France.It was formed when the city of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on February 28, 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville....
    's main airport
  • Maupertus-sur-Mer
    Maupertus-sur-Mer

    Maupertus-sur-Mer is a Communes of France in the Manche Departments of France in Normandy in northwestern France...
    , a commune in the Manche département