The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment / J.B. Shank.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

xv, 571 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Newton without newtonianism : French mathematical science in the early eighteenth century -- Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism : toward a new climate of science in France after 1715 -- Preparing the battlefield : fighting for and against Newton after 1715 -- The invention of French Newtonianism : Maupertuis and Voltaire -- Making the "philosophe" : Voltaire's Newtonianism and the scandal of the lettres philosophiques -- A French culture war : the battle over Newtonianism -- Leibnizianism and the solidification of the French Enlightenment.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-548) and index.