Newtonianism and the physics of du Châtelet's \textit{Institutions de physique}

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-09722-5_13MaRDI QIDQ6979295zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marius Stan

Publication date 26 May 2025

Full work available at URL https://philarchive.org/rec/STANAT-10

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{Institutions de physique}Newtonianism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

Review text

This paper takes issue with the (in the author's view, all-too-prevalent) characterization of du~Châtelet's \textit{Institutions de physique} as an exposition of ``Newtonian physics. The author considers over a dozen different interpretations of the adjective ``Newtonian and argues that each, in turn, either (1) inaccurately describes what du~Châtelet presents in his \textit{Institutions} or (2) is so broad as to be uninformative.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1555.01004].

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