Author: Robert Lowell WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Voltaire and the Newtonian Universe
Author: Robert Lowell WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Works of M. de Voltaire: Elements of Newton's philosophy
Author: VoltaireThe Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton: Or, a Comparison Between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz. By M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. By David Erskine Baker
Author: VoltairePhilosophical Letters
Author: VoltairePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486143163
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.
La Métaphysique de Neuton ou Parallèle des sentimens de Neuton et de Leibnitz. The Newtonian Philosophy compared with that of Leibnitz. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire
Author: VoltaireThe Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. by Mr. Voltaire. Translated from the French. Revised and Corrected by John Hanna,
Author: VOLTAIRE.Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379297215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T138093 London: printed for Stephen Austen, 1738. xvi,363, [3]p., plates: ill.; 8°
Is There a Universe?
Author: Stanley L. JakiPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853234981
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Is there a Universe? Bafflingly, scientific cosmologists, from Einstein to Hawking, have invariably failed to face up to this question. This is all the more curious because some of them have claimed to know that the universe can only be such as prescribed by their theories. Some even claimed that their expertise enables them to create, in theory at least, entire universes literally out of nothing.For their strange attitudes towards the universe, this greatest object of empirical human enquiry, scientists have not been taken to task by philosophers. No wonder. The universe has become orphaned by modern philosophy.In this book the author, a renowned historian and philosopher of science, and especially of astronomy and cosmology, probes into this puzzling state of affairs. He also points out that slighting the question, Is there a Universe?, has serious consequences for science as well as for philosophy, to say nothing of theology. Most importantly, he shows that it is possible to answer the question, Is there a Universe?, in a convincingly demonstrative way.
Intellectual Development of Voltaire
Author: Ira O. WadePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877822
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, the diversity of activity at Cirey, and the relation of Voltaire’s thought to 17th- and 18th-century philosophy. By devoting considerable attention to the movements, the personal relationships, and the environments that influenced Voltaire, Professor Wade is able to illuminate the sources of Voltaire’s thought and show at the same time how he wove them into a unique synthesis. A final chapter in the book contains a general summation of the importance of Voltaireanism as a philosophy of life. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Voltaire in Love
Author: Nancy MitfordPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.
Voltaire’s Riddle
Author: Andrew J. SimosonPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470458454
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description