The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Portrait 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.