Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment (Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science, 6) by Thomas L. Hankins

Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment (Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science, 6)

Cambridge Studies in the History of Science

Thomas L. Hankins

260 pages • first pub 1985 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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This book examines the origins of d'Alembert's philosophical ideas, and shows how abstract concepts such as force and mass were clarified and assimilated into the structure of classical mechanics. But more than this, the book is a study of the rel...

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