Before Voltaire the French origins of "Newtonian" mechanics, 1680-1715

We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shank, John Bennett
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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