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) 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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