The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment

Main Author: Shank, John Bennett.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10265970
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300 |a xv, 571 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-548) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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