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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: translating Newton
- The institutional sources of analytical mechanics: mathematics at the Académie royale des sciences in the late seventeenth century
- Academic mathematics in France before 1699: the initial founding of the Academy and its legacies
- Academic mathematics in France before 1699: the administrative turn at the Académie royale des sciences
- Beyond the continental translation of "Newtonian mechanics": the intellectual roots of analytical mechanics
- The Newtonian sources of analytical mechanics
- The new infinitesimal calculus and the Leibnizian origins of analytical mechanics
- The Malebranchian moment in France and the cultural origins of analytical mechanics
- Making analytical mechanics in the new Académie royale des sciences, 1692-1715
- The beginnings of analytical mechanics, 1692-98
- Analytical mechanics within the new public academy: first steps, 1698-1700
- Analytical mechanics goes public: "la querelle des infiniment petits"
- Managing toward consensus: Bignon, Fontenelle, and the creation of the pax
- Analytica in France
- Coda: Newton and mathematical physics in France in the twilight of the Sun King.