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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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
17131759
King of Spain from 1746 to 1759, known as 'the Learned' and 'the Just', and the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty