The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment / J.B. Shank.
- Shank, John Bennett.
- Date:
- 2008
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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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xv, 571 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-548) and index.
Contents
Newton without newtonianism : French mathematical science in the early eighteenth century -- Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism : toward a new climate of science in France after 1715 -- Preparing the battlefield : fighting for and against Newton after 1715 -- The invention of French Newtonianism : Maupertuis and Voltaire -- Making the "philosophe" : Voltaire's Newtonianism and the scandal of the lettres philosophiques -- A French culture war : the battle over Newtonianism -- Leibnizianism and the solidification of the French Enlightenment.
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Location Status History of MedicineAB.36.AA7Open shelves
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- 9780226749457
- 0226749452