The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment / J.B. Shank.

Author/creator Shank, John Bennett
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionxv, 571 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [507]-548) and index.
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LCCN 2008006414
ISBN9780226749457 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226749452 (cloth : alk. paper)

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