The Man Who Flattened the Earth
Subtitle: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780226793610
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; c 1700 to c 1800; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Europe; Scientists - General; Science / History; History; 1698-1759; Biography; France; Maupertuis,; Scientists
First sentence: IN 1739, AT THE PEAK OF HIS SCIENTIFIC CAREER, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis sat for his portrait (see frontispiece).