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Before Voltaire: The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics 1680–1715 by J. B. Shank

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2018, IX + 444 PP., US $55.00, ISBN: 978-0-226-509297

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  1. J. B. Shank. The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment, University of Chicago Press, 2008 (reviewed in the fall 2013 issue of this magazine).

  2. Ivor Grattan-Guinness (editor), Duckworth, 1980.

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Crilly, T. Before Voltaire: The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics 1680–1715 by J. B. Shank. Math Intelligencer 41, 93–96 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09910-x

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