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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 571 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226749471
  • 0226749479
  • 1281966452
  • 9781281966452
  • 9786611966454
  • 6611966455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment.DDC classification:
  • 509.44/09033 22
LOC classification:
  • Q127.F8 S53 2008eb
Other classification:
  • CF 6817
  • NU 5535
  • UB 2360
Online resources:
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.
Summary: A study of public culture, this book digs beneath the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with the Enlightenment to examine the actual historical changes that brought them togather in 18th century time and space. Shank re-examines Newton's status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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A study of public culture, this book digs beneath the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with the Enlightenment to examine the actual historical changes that brought them togather in 18th century time and space. Shank re-examines Newton's status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement.

English.

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