The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment [electronic resource] / J.B. Shank.
By: Shank, John Bennett.
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Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: xv, 571 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Influence | Science -- France -- History -- 18th century | Enlightenment -- France | Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 509.44/09033 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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