Mettrie, 2 vols. (Utrecht: OMI-Grafisch Bedrijf, 1988) References Further reading Friedrich Albert Lange, Geschichte des Materialismus, 1866 (Eng. trans. The History of Materialism by E. C. Thomas, ii. 1880) Jakob Elias Poritzky, J. O. de Lamettrie. Sein Leben und seine Werke, (1900, reprint 1970) Kathleen Wellman, La Mettrie. Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment, Durham and London, Duke University Press 1992 Birgit Christensen, Ironie und Skepsis. Das offene Wissenschafts- und Weltverständnis bei Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1996 Hartmut Hecht, ed., La Mettrie. Ansichten und Einsichten. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004 (Proceedings of Potsdam/Berlin La Mettrie Conference, 2001) Bernd A. Laska: La Mettrie - ein gewollt unbekannter Bekannter. In: Aufklärung und Kritik, Sonderheft 14/2008, pp. 64–84 External links Man a Machine - 1748 English translation of L'homme machine 1912 Open Court French-English edition (English translation by Gertrude C. Bussey, rev. by Mary Whiton Calkins) Full text of same available at Project Gutenberg. Frederic the Great's Eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie Man-Machine - 2009 translation by Jonathan Bennett 18th-century French physicians 18th-century atheists French philosophers Atheist philosophers French atheism activists French materialists Social philosophy People from Saint-Malo Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1709 births 1751 deaths University of Rennes alumni French male non-fiction writers French expatriates in the Dutch Republic Enlightenment philosophers 18th-century French male writers