Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction:
Translating Newton
Part I. The Institutional Sources of Analytical Mechanics: Mathematics at the Académie Royale des Sciences in the Late Seventeenth Century
Chapter 2. Academic Mathematics in France before 1699:
The Initial Founding of the Academy and Its Legacies
Chapter 3. Academic Mathematics in France before 1699:
The Administrative Turn at the Académie Royale des Sciences
Part II. Beyond the Continental Translation of “Newtonian Mechanics”: The Intellectual Roots of Analytical Mechanics
Chapter 4. The Newtonian Sources of Analytical Mechanics
Chapter 5. The New Infinitesimal Calculus and the Leibnizian Origins of Analytical Mechanics
Chapter 6. The Malebranchian Moment in France and the Cultural Origins of Analytical Mechanics
Part III. Making Analytical Mechanics in the New Académie Royale des Sciences, 1692–1715
Chapter 7. The Beginnings of Analytical Mechanics, 1692–98
Chapter 8. Analytical Mechanics within the New Public Academy:
First Steps, 1698–1700
Chapter 9. Analytical Mechanics Goes Public:
“La Querelle des infiniment petits”
Chapter 10. Managing toward Consensus:
Bignon, Fontenelle, and the Creation of the Pax Analytica
in France
Chapter 11. Coda:
Newton and Mathematical Physics in France in the Twilight of the Sun King
Notes
Index