Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction: Translating Newton 1
6. Part I. The Institutional Sources of Analytical Mechanics: Mathematics at the Académie Royale des Sciences in the Late Seventeenth Century
7. Chapter 2. Academic Mathematics in France before 1699: The Initial Founding of the Academy and Its Legacies 41
8. Chapter 3. Academic Mathematics in France before 1699: The Administrative Turn at the Académie Royale des Sciences 76
9. Part II. Beyond the Continental Translation of “Newtonian Mechanics”: The Intellectual Roots of Analytical Mechanics
10. Chapter 4. The Newtonian Sources of Analytical Mechanics 115
11. Chapter 5. The New Infi nitesimal Calculus and the Leibnizian Origins of Analytical Mechanics 136
12. Chapter 6. The Malebranchian Moment in France and the Cultural Origins of Analytical Mechanics 158
13. Part III. Making Analytical Mechanics in the New Académie Royale des Sciences, 1692– 1715
14. Chapter 7. The Beginnings of Analytical Mechanics, 1692– 98 181
15. Chapter 8. Analytical Mechanics within the New Public Academy: First Steps, 1698– 1700 215
16. Chapter 9. Analytical Mechanics Goes Public: “La Querelle des infi niment petits” 252
17. Chapter 10. Managing toward Consensus: Bignon, Fontenelle, and the Creation of the Pax Analytica in France 298
18. Chapter 11. Coda: Newton and Mathematical Physics in France in the Twilight of the Sun King 347
19. Notes 373
20. Index 431