Book ID: CBB000201568

The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment (2002)

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Terrall, Mary (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2002
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)


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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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Essay Review Shank, J. B. (2005) The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship. French Historical Studies (pp. 661-695). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Terrall, Mary
Fauque, Danielle M. E.
Le Lay, Colette
Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca
Zinsser, Judith P.
Schiavon, Martina
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Geodesy
Astronomy
Navigation
Time measurement
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
20th century
Places
France
Peru
Spain
Egypt
Institutions
France. Bureau des Longitudes
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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