The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment / Mary Terrall.

  • Terrall, Mary.
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[2002], ©2002
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2002], ©2002.

Physical description

ix, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-392) and index.

Contents

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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    History of Medicine
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  • 0226793605
  • 0226793613