The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment

by J. B. Shank and J.B. Shank

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. Terms like "Newtonianism" are routinely taken as synonyms for "Enlightenment" and "modern" thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226749452
• ISBN13: 9780226749457
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"