Book review of: J. B. Shank, Before Voltaire. The French origins of ``Newtonian mechanics, 1680--1715

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09910-XMaRDI QIDQ2325873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tony Crilly

Publication date 30 September 2019

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09910-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Schools of mathematics (01A72) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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