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" The man who flattened the earth : "
Mary Terrall.
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BL
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965122
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b719492
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Terrall, Mary.
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The man who flattened the earth : : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /\ Mary Terrall.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (ix, 408 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0226793605
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: 0226793621
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: 1282932942
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: 9780226793627
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: 9781282932944
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: 9786612932946
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0226793605
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0226793613
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9780226793603
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9780226793610
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index.
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| Contents
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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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Maupertuis,1698-1759.
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Maupertuis,1698-1759
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Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de.
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Maupertuis,1698-1759.
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Scientists-- France, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Scientists.
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Science.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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France.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.2
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Q143.M28T47 2002eb
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2003 A-578
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Q 143.M28T323m 2002
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