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in the form of an adventure story, so as to interest a wider audience. She wrote an article describing his use of anonymity when publishing controversial work, though presenting it as neutral. Additionally, she took an interest in the work of
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Kellman, Jordan (2006). "Review of The Man Who
Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment".
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Terrall, Mary (1992). "Representing the Earth's Shape: The
Polemics Surrounding Maupertuis's Expedition to Lapland".
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and the way in which he and other naturalists used literary techniques to tell narratives on animal behaviors.
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Lilti, Antoine (2007). "Querelles et controverses - Les formes du désaccord intellectuel à l'époque moderne".
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Terrall also described and analyzed the way
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Terrall, Mary (1996). "Salon, Academy and
Boudoir: Generation and Desire in Maupertuis's Science of Life".
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Terrall, Mary (2015). "Masculine
Knowledge, the Public Good, and the Scientific Household of RĂ©aumur".
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Catching nature in the act : RĂ©aumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century
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The Man Who
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Terrall, Mary (1990). "The Culture of Science in Frederick the Great's Berlin".
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Vital matters : Eighteenth-Century views of conception, life and death,
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Terrall, Mary (2006). "Mathematical Narratives of Scientific Expeditions".
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Terrall, Mary (2002). "The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason".
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