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Q143.M28 T47 2002eb
Q143
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M28
T47
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0226793605
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The man who flattened the earth :
[Book]
Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /
Mary Terrall.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2002.
1 online resource (ix, 408 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index.
Portrait of a man of science -- From Saint-Malo to Paris -- Mathematics and mechanics in the Paris Academy of Sciences -- The expedition to Lapland -- The polemical aftermath of the Lapland expedition -- Beyond Newton and on to Berlin -- Toward a science of living things -- The Berlin Academy of Sciences -- Teleology, cosmology, and least action -- Heredity and materialism -- The final years.
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's ca.
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Man who flattened the earth.
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Maupertuis,1698-1759.
Maupertuis,1698-1759
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de.
Maupertuis,1698-1759.
Scientists-- France, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.
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