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Born: 1698–1698
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

16981759

French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer who led the expedition confirming Earth's polar flattening and was the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science

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