Before Voltaire: The French Origins of "Newtonian" Mechanics, 1680-1715

by 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 calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022650929X
• ISBN13: 9780226509297
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"