Article ID: CBB000069662

Salon, academy, and boudoir: Generation and desire in Maupertuis's science of life (1996)

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Description “In offering a reading of [Maupertuis's biological works] that takes their [rhetorical] idiosyncrasies seriously, I explore the very productive interconnections among polite conversation, literary gossip, erotic fiction, natural history, experiment, and philosophy in the early Enlightenment.”


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Authors & Contributors
Terrall, Mary
Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca
Downing, Lisa
Zinsser, Judith P.
Zammito, John H.
Wolfe, Charles T.
Concepts
Mechanics
Variational principles
Science
Philosophy
Mathematics
Properties of matter
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
17th century
Places
France
Institutions
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
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