Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Finland · 1986 · 2.20 mk

The stamp features a stylized portrait of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, a French scientist, against a light background.

This stamp commemorates Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, known for his work on the principle of least action and his expedition to Lapland to measure the shape of the Earth.