The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Sommario:
- 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.