The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment

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Autor principal: Shank, John Bennett
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.