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9 produkter
Man Who Flattened the Earth
Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
Av Mary Terrall
Inbunden, 2002
904 kr
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. With "The Man Who Flattened the Earth", Mary Terrall offers an elegant portrait of this remarkable man, revealing just how his …
Man Who Flattened the Earth
Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
Av Mary Terrall
Häftad, 2006
406 kr
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. With "The Man Who Flattened the Earth", Mary Terrall offers an elegant portrait of this remarkable man, revealing just how his …
Man Who Flattened the Earth
Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
Av Mary Terrall
E-bok, 2006
1006 kr
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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis''s life, …
Vital Matters
Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death
Av Helen Deutsch, Mary Terrall
Inbunden, 2012
930 kr
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Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and soul. Locating materialism within the larger history of ideas, Vital Matters examines how and why eighteenth-century …
Vital Matters
Eighteenth Century Views of Conception.Life * Death
Av Helen Deutsch, Mary Terrall
E-bok, 2012
1069 kr
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Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and soul. Locating materialism within the larger history of ideas, Vital Matters examines how and why eighteenth-century …
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
Inbunden, 2019
775 kr
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With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of …
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
E-bok, 2019
1123 kr
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With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of …
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
E-bok, 2019
1148 kr
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With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of …
Catching Nature in the Act
Raumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Av Mary Terrall
Inbunden, 2014
400 kr
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Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people - diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of …
