The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment [electronic resource] / J.B. Shank.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xv, 571 p. : illISBN:- 0226749452 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226749457 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 509.44/09033 22
- Q127.F8 S53 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-548) and index.
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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