Table of Contents: 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.
Subjects:	Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727 > Influence. Science > History > 18th century. > France Enlightenment > France. Science > Philosophy > 18th century. > History
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10265970

Table of 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.