The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics, 1680-1715
by
J.B. Shank
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
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...