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