The Man Who Flattened the Earth : Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
by
Mary Terrall
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226793613
ISBN-13
9780226793610
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 2006
Print length
468 Pages
Weight
636 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 23.00 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: science, technology & medicineHistory of science
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe.
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