The Man Who Flattened the Earth - Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment - Mary Terrall - Paperback Bog - The University of Chicago Press -

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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe.