Article ID: CBB000044628

The role of metaphor and analogy in the birth of the principle of least action of Maupertuis (1698-1759) (1988)

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Authors & Contributors
Hecht, Hartmut
Radelet-de Grave, Patricia
Downing, Lisa
Zyganowa, N. Ja.
Zammito, John H.
Thiele, Rüdiger
Journals
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
New Literary History
Natural History
Publishers
Steiner
Concepts
Mechanics
Variational principles
Embryology
Gravitation
Principle of least action
Properties of matter
People
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Euler, Leonhard
König, Samuel
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
France
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