The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment /

Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like "Newtonianism" are routinely taken as synonyms for "Enlightenment" and "modern" thou...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shank, J.B (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
Enlightenment > France.
Science > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Science > France > History > 18th century.
SCIENCE / General.
isaac newton, science, scientist, physics, physicist, 18th century, time period, era, newtonianism, newtonian, modern, contemporary, thought, thinker, intellectual, theory, theoretical, gravity, scientific, history, historical, public, culture, cultural, narrative, story, philosophy, philosophical, france, europe, western world, academic, scholarly, research.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Provincializing Newton, or Building in the Ruins of a Grand Narrative of Modernity
  • Part 1. Before the Light: Newton and French Science before 1728
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Newton without Newtonianism: French Mathematical Science in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter 2. Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism: Toward a New Climate of Science in France after 1715
  • Chapter 3. Preparing the Battlefield: Fighting For and Against Newton after 1715
  • Part 2. The Newton Wars in France
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4. The Invention of French Newtonianism: Maupertuis and Voltaire
  • Chapter 5. Making the "Philosophe": Voltaire's Newtonianism and the Scandal of the Lettres philosophiques
  • Chapter 6. A French Culture War: The Battle over Newtonianism
  • Chapter 7. Leibnizianism and the Solidification of the French Enlightenment
  • Coda: Instituting the French Enlightenment: Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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