Before Voltaire: The French Origins of
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Before Voltaire traces how the development of mathematical physics in the eighteenth-century, following the publication of Newton's Principia, was part and parcel of French culture generally. It offers, for the first time, a cultural history of how Newton's ideas were first read and received in France and how their reception influenced French science and society.

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Before Voltaire traces how the development of mathematical physics in the eighteenth-century, following the publication of Newton's Principia, was part and parcel of French culture generally. It offers, for the first time, a cultural history of how Newton's ideas were first read and received in France and how their reception influenced French science and society.
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J. B. Shank is Distinguished University Teaching Professor of history and director of the Center for Early Modern History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World at the University of Minnesota.