The man who flattened the earth
Terrall, Mary.
The man who flattened the earth Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment / [electronic resource] : Mary Terrall. - University of Chicago Press, c2002. - 1 online resource (ix, 408 p.) : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-392) 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 ca.
9780226793627 (electronic bk.) 0226793621 (electronic bk.)
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.
Moreau de Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis.
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de.
Scientists--France--Biography.
Science--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Electronic books.
Q143.M28 / T47 2002eb
509.2
2003 A-578 Q 143.M28 / T323m 2002
The man who flattened the earth Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment / [electronic resource] : Mary Terrall. - University of Chicago Press, c2002. - 1 online resource (ix, 408 p.) : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-392) 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 ca.
9780226793627 (electronic bk.) 0226793621 (electronic bk.)
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.
Moreau de Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis.
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de.
Scientists--France--Biography.
Science--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Electronic books.
Q143.M28 / T47 2002eb
509.2
2003 A-578 Q 143.M28 / T323m 2002