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The man who flattened the earth (Record no. 10760)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency N$T
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency N$T
Modifying agency EBLCP
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-- OCLCQ
-- MHW
-- OCLCQ
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-- 764547533
-- 768694625
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226793627 (electronic bk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0226793621 (electronic bk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 0226793605
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780226793603
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 0226793613
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780226793610
029 1# - (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier NZ1
System control number 13869462
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)692205220
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)764547533
-- (OCoLC)768694625
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Geographic area code e-fr---
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number Q143.M28
Item number T47 2002eb
060 #4 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER
Classification number 2003 A-578
060 #4 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER
Classification number Q 143.M28
Item number T323m 2002
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code BIO
Subject category code subdivision 015000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 509.2
Edition number 22
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library GLAA
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Terrall, Mary.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The man who flattened the earth
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /
Statement of responsibility, etc Mary Terrall.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Chicago :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of Chicago Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (ix, 408 p.) :
Other physical details ill., maps.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-392) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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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-- Description based on print version record.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maupertuis,
Dates associated with a name 1698-1759.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Scientists
Geographic subdivision France
Form subdivision Biography.
600 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maupertuis,
Dates associated with a name 1698-1759.
650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science
Form subdivision Biography.
600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Moreau de Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
General subdivision Science & Technology.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Natuurwetenschappen.
Source of heading or term gtt
600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de.
Source of heading or term swd
655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Print version:
Main entry heading Terrall, Mary.
Title Man who flattened the earth.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002
International Standard Book Number 0226793605
Record control number (DLC) 2002006778
-- (OCoLC)49719072
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Materials specified EBSCOhost
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Date last seen Uniform Resource Identifier Price effective from Koha item type
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