Before Voltaire. The French origins of ``Newtonian mechanics, 1680--1715

DOI10.7208/CHICAGO/9780226509327.001.0001MaRDI QIDQ4580314zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Bennett Shank

Publication date 14 August 2018

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226509327.001.0001

zbMATH Keywords

analytical mechanicshistory of mechanicsNewtonian mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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