Mary Terrall
The Man Who Flattened the Earth
Mary Terrall · 2002
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the centre 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.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 468
- ISBN
- 9780226793603
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