Terrall, Mary (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: ix + 408 pp., illus., map, bibl., index
Language: English
Description “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.” (from publisher's website)
Review Lynn, Michael R. (2004) Review of "The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 177).
Review Kellman, Jordan (2006) Review of "The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 90).
Review Waff, Craig B. (2004) Review of "The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 363).
Essay Review Shank, J. B. (2005) The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship. French Historical Studies (pp. 661-695).
Review Stewart, Larry (2005) Review of "The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 121).
Review Safier, Neil (2005) Review of "The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (p. 84).
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