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MARC recordThe man who flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the sciences in the Enlightenment / Mary Terrall.
| Title: | The man who flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the sciences in the Enlightenment / Mary Terrall. |
| Author(s): | Terrall, Mary. |
| Date: | 2002. |
| Publisher: | Chicago: University of Chicago Press |
| Abstract: | Biography of Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French scientist and savant, who first came to prominence by leading an expedition in 1736-37 to Lapland confirming Newton's prediction that the Earth was flattened toward the Poles. |
| Keywords: | 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1736-37 de Maupertuis. 92 -- Biographies: Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de. X -- Biographies and obituaries. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*55) -- European Arctic. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 92[Maupertuis, P-L.] |
| ISBN: | 0226793605 |
| SPRI record no.: | 164373 |
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