Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Provincializing Newton, or Building in the Ruins of a Grand Narrative of Modernity 1
7. Part 1. Before the Light: Newton and French Science before 1728
8. Introduction 37
9. Chapter 1. Newton without Newtonianism: French Mathematical Science in the Early Eighteenth Century 49
10. Chapter 2. Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism: Toward a New Climate of Science in France after 1715 105
11. Chapter 3. Preparing the Battlefield: Fighting For and Against Newton after 1715 165
12. Part 2. The Newton Wars in France
13. Introduction 233
14. Chapter 4. The Invention of French Newtonianism: Maupertuis and Voltaire 245
15. Chapter 5. Making the “Philosophe”: Voltaire’s Newtonianism and the Scandal of the Lettres philosophiques 295
16. Chapter 6. A French Culture War: The Battle over Newtonianism 343
17. Chapter 7. Leibnizianism and the Solidification of the French Enlightenment 403
18. Coda: Instituting the French Enlightenment: Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie 481
19. Bibliography 507
20. Index 549