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  • BEFORE VOLTAIRE
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    BEFORE VOLTAIRE
    J.B. SHANK
    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 Isaac Newton’s Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calcu...

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  • THE NEWTON WARS AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
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    THE NEWTON WARS AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
    J.B. SHANK
    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” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physic...

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