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The Man Who Flattened the Earth
Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. With "The …
Vital Matters
Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and …
Man Who Flattened the Earth
Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. …
Curious Encounters
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the …
Vital Matters
Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and …
Catching Nature in the Act
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people - diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's …
Curious Encounters
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the …
Maupertuis
Maupertuis, maapallon muodon mittaajaRanskalainen matemaatikko ja tutkimusmatkailija Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) tunnetaan parhaiten Ranskan kuninkaallisen …