The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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.
  • Brand: The University of Chicago Press
  • Category: Biography
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2022-02-18
  • Publisher / Label: The University of Chicago Press
  • Author: Mary Terrall
  • Number of Pages: 468
  • Fruugo ID: 346760696-758028087
  • ISBN: 9780226793610

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