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  • CATCHING NATURE IN THE ACT
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    CATCHING NATURE IN THE ACT
    MARY TERRALL
    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 people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, ...

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  • THE MAN WHO FLATTENED THE EARTH
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    THE MAN WHO FLATTENED THE EARTH
    MARY TERRALL
    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, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and ...

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