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

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09910-XzbMATH Open1425.00021OpenAlexW2956070706MaRDI QIDQ2325873FDOQ2325873

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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