MARY TERRALL

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

B.A. Harvard University; PhD UCLA

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Office: 5276 BUNCHE
Phone: 310-825-2013
Fax: 310-206-9630
E-mail: terrall@history.ucla.edu

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Science, Europe

Selected Publications

The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

"Vis viva Revisited," History of Science, forthcoming (June 2004).

"The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason," in Scientific Authorship, ed. by Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison, Routledge, 2002.

Speculation and Experiment in Enlightenment Life Sciences," MPI preprint, online at: "Fashionable Readers of Natural Philosophy" in History of the Sciences/Hitory of the Book, ed. by N. Jardine and M. Frasca-Spada, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

"Mathematics, Metaphysics and the Gendering of Science in France," in The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, ed. by William Clark, Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

"Experimenting with Enlightenment," (Essay review), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29 (1998): 319-325.

"Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery," Configurations, 1998 6(2): 223-242.

"Salon, Academy and Boudoir: Generation and Desire in Maupertuis's Science of Life," Isis 87 (1996): 217-229. (French translation, "Les sciences dans le boudoir," La Recherche, January 1997.)

"Gendered Spaces, Gendered Audiences: Inside and Outside the Paris Academy of Sciences," Configurations 3 (1995): 207-232.

"Emilie du Chatelet and the Gendering of Science," History of Science 33 (1995): 283-310. (Winner of History of Science Society Women in Science Prize, 1998.)

"Representing the Earth's Shape: The Polemics Surrounding Maupertuis's Expedition to Lapland," Isis, 83 (1992): 218- 237. (Winner of the History of Science Society Derek Price Award, 1994.)

"The Culture of Science in Frederick the Great's Berlin," History of Science, 28 (1990): 333-364

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