Before Voltaire : the French origins of "Newtonian" mechanics, 1680-1715
J.B. Shank
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | IX, 444 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 9780226509297
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