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... least , Maupertuis stands his own ground as a likely model for Doctor Moreau when compared to the candidates discussed above . There is no reason , for example , to assume that someone who was long dead would be any less likely to have ...
... least , Maupertuis stands his own ground as a likely model for Doctor Moreau when compared to the candidates discussed above . There is no reason , for example , to assume that someone who was long dead would be any less likely to have ...
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... least action , " and it is for this principle that Maupertuis is perhaps best known . Here , Maupertuis argued that the quantity of action involved in any change in nature is always the least possible ( Glass , " Maupertuis " 187 ) . This ...
... least action , " and it is for this principle that Maupertuis is perhaps best known . Here , Maupertuis argued that the quantity of action involved in any change in nature is always the least possible ( Glass , " Maupertuis " 187 ) . This ...
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... least as He is conventionally conceived . Finally , rather like Moreau , Maupertuis endured obloquy and exile . In 1751 , a fellow member of the Berlin Academy named Samuel Köenig accused Maupertuis's principle of least action not only ...
... least as He is conventionally conceived . Finally , rather like Moreau , Maupertuis endured obloquy and exile . In 1751 , a fellow member of the Berlin Academy named Samuel Köenig accused Maupertuis's principle of least action not only ...
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