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1 1. Alain Corbin, Le Territoire du vide: L’Occident et le désir de rivage (1750–1840). Paris: Aubier, 1988; English translation The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750–1840, tr. Jocelyn Phelps. Cambridge: Polity, 1994.

2 2. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Œuvres. Paris: Gallimard, 1961, p. 1472.

3 3. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, A Universal History from the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne, tr. James Elphinston. London: David Steel, 1767, p. 11.

4 4. Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, tr. N. Rowe. London: D. Browne, 1752, pp. 188–9.

5 5. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, ‘Des époques de la nature’, in Œuvres. Paris: Gallimard, 2007, pp. 1193–1342.

6 6. There is some evidence for this argument as early as Buffon’s 1749 work Théorie de la Terre [Theory of the Earth].

7 7. Osmo Pekonen and Anouchka Vasak, Maupertuis en Laponie: À la recherche de la figure de la Terre. Paris: Hermann, 2014.

8 8. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Studies of Nature, tr. Henry Hunter. Philadelphia: Joseph Woodward, 1835, p. 67.

9 9. Ibid., p. 69. Translation modified.