List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Provincializing Newton, or Building in the Ruins of a Grand Narrative of Modernity
Part 1: Before the Light: Newton and French Science before 1728
Chapter 1: Newton without Newtonianism: French Mathematical Science in the Early Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2: Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism: Toward a New Climate of Science in France after 1715
Chapter 3: Preparing the Battlefield: Fighting For and Against Newton after 1715
Part 2: The Newton Wars in France
Chapter 4: The Invention of French Newtonianism: Maupertuis and Voltaire
Chapter 5: Making the “Philosophe”: Voltaire’s Newtonianism and the Scandal of the Lettres philosophiques
Chapter 6: A French Culture War: The Battle over Newtonianism
Chapter 7: Leibnizianism and the Solidification of the French Enlightenment
Coda: Instituting the French Enlightenment: Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie
Bibliography
Index
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