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The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment / Mary Terrall.

By: Terrall, Mary.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2002Description: ix, 408 p. : USD 41.00 ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226793613 (pbk.).Subject(s): Maupertuis, 1698-1759 | Scientists -- France -- BiographyDDC classification: 509.2 | B Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Table of contents
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: 2016-11-18
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Book Chennai Mathematical Institute
General Stacks 		509.2 TER (Browse shelf) Available 10010
Total holds: 0

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.