The man who flattened the Earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the Enlightment / Mary Terrall.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2002.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. A note on translations. 1. Portrait of a man of science 2. From Saint-Malo to Paris 3. Mathematics and mechanics in the Paris academy of sciences 4. The expedition to Lapland 5. The polemical aftermath of the Lapland expedition 6. Beyond Newton and on to Berlin 7. Toward a science of living things 8. The Berlin academy of sciences 9. Teleology, cosmology and least action 10. Heredity and materialism 11. The final years. Bibliography. Index
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