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  <dc:title>Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Morceau de</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Full-length portrait of Pierre Louis Maupertuis in fur clothes from his 1736 expedition to Lapland, where he measured a length of the arc of the meridian. Engraving after Robert Tournières (1667 - 1752). An inscription from Voltaire is seen below, alongside an illustration of a reindeer pulling a sledge.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1741</dc:date>
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