The Man Who Flattened the Earth
Subtitle: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780226793603
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of science; c 1700 to c 1800; Scientists; Science; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Science/Mathematics; Western Continental Europe; History; Scientists - General; Maupertuis; Science / History; 1698-1759; Biography; France; Maupertuis,
First sentence: IN 1739, AT THE PEAK OF HIS SCIENTIFIC CAREER, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis sat for his portrait (see frontispiece).