The Man Who Flattened the Earth
Mary Terrall
The University of Chicago Press, 2002
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780226793603
- ISBN-10
- 0226793605
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2002
- Publication date
- 2002-12-15
- Pages
- 468
- Dimensions
- 240x162x29
- Weight
- 700