The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment

by JBShank (Author)

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Illustrated
2008
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Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement.

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Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 464
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 19 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 0226749452
ISBN 13: 9780226749457