The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment - Mary Terrall - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226793603 - December 15, 2002
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The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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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.

400 pages, 3 halftones, 23 line drawings

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 15, 2002
ISBN13 9780226793603
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 468
Dimensions 162 × 240 × 29 mm   ·   700 g

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