Maupertuis

We only know that the place of the encounter was called Maupertuis, which is generally identified with a farm now called La Cardinerie, some six miles south-east of

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

King Frederick II had invited foreign intellectuals and scientists, such as Maupertuis, d'Alembert, La Mettrie, Voltaire, Lagrange, and Euler to the academy, and they had little patience with their speculative German colleagues.

Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

Dramatic pauses inserted in the dance "La Georgienne, dite La Maupertuis" cut up the phrases into angry gestures.

PERFORMING ARTS 2011

Yet after she died in 1749, and Voltaire joined Maupertuis at Frederick the Great's court in Berlin, this anti-Leibnizianism became the centerpiece of a rift with Maupertuis.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Voltaire's public satire of the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin published in late 1752, which presented Maupertuis as a despotic philosophical buffoon, forced Frederick to make a choice.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

April 15, 1744, the Principle of Least Action is presented by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis.

An Historic Tidbit 2007

While Voltaire's attacks on Maupertuis crossed the line into ad hominem, at their core was a fierce defense of the way that metaphysical reasoning both occludes and deludes the work of the physical scientist.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Maupertuis had preceded Voltaire as the first aggressive advocate for Newtonian science in France.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

He also added personal invective and satire to this same position in his indictment of Maupertuis in the 1750s, linking Maupertuis's turn toward metaphysical approaches to physics in the 1740s with his increasingly deluded philosophical understanding and his authoritarian manner of dealing with his colleagues and critics.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Maupertuis was also an occasional guest at Cirey, and a correspondent with both du Châtelet and Voltaire throughout these years.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009