The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment / Mary Terrall.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 408 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226793627
- 0226793621
- 0226793605
- 9780226793603
- 1282932942
- 9781282932944
- 9786612932946
- 6612932945
- Q143.28
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | Q143.28 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn692205220 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center 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. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's circa.
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