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The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /
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 li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 ca. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 408 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226793627 0226793621 0226793605 9780226793603 1282932942 9781282932944 9786612932946 6612932945 |