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LEADER: 01507cam a22002894a 4500
001 2002006778
003 DLC
005 20041210183406.0
008 020430s2002 iluab b 001 0beng
010 $a 2002006778
020 $a0226793605 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-fr---
050 00 $aQ143.M28$bT47 2002
082 00 $a509.2$aB$221
100 1 $aTerrall, Mary.
245 14 $aThe man who flattened the earth :$bMaupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /$cMary Terrall.
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$cc2002.
300 $aix, 408 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-392) and index.
505 0 $aPortrait of a man of science -- From Saint-Malo to Paris -- Mathematics and mechanics in the Paris Academy of Sciences -- The expedition to Lapland -- The polemical aftermath of the Lapland expedition -- Beyond Newton and on to Berlin -- Toward a science of living things -- The Berlin Academy of Sciences -- Teleology, cosmology, and least action -- Heredity and materialism -- The final years.
600 10 $aMaupertuis,$d1698-1759.
650 0 $aScientists$zFrance$vBiography.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2002006778.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2002006778.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002006778.html