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