The man who flattened the earth Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment - Terrall, Mary (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
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Keywords: Maupertuis, : 1698-1759; Scientists : France : Biography; maupertuis, science, enlightenment, self fashioning, expedition, exploration, lapland, newton, poles, metaphysics, astronomy, navigation, physics, academy of sciences, prussia, frederick the great, berlin, print culture, government, scientific institutions, mathematics, biology, paris, least action, teleology, cosmology, materialism, heredity, nonfiction