TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shank,John Bennett
TI  - The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment
SN  - 9780226749471
AV  - Q127.F8 S53 2008eb
U1  - 509.44/09033 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Newton, Isaac,
KW  - Science
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - history
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Siècle des Lumières
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-548) and index; 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
N2  - A study of public culture, this book digs beneath the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with the Enlightenment to examine the actual historical changes that brought them togather in 18th century time and space. Shank re-examines Newton's status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement
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