Article ID: CBB000073305

De la nature épargnante aux forces généreuses: Le principe de moindre action entre mathématique et métaphysique: Maupertuis et Euler, 1740-1751 (1995)

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Description “I stress the opposition between the metaphysical and theological conceptions of Maupertuis, who thought that action is a real quantity acting in nature which God minimizes in motion and in any other physical phenomena, and the conception of Euler, who interpreted action as a mathematical entity, expressed in the form of an integral, that characterizes any mechanical system.” From the English abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, Curtis
Radelet-de Grave, Patricia
Hecht, Hartmut
Thiele, Rüdiger
Suisky, Dieter
Steele, Brett D.
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science and Education
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Kultur & Technik: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Museums
Publishers
Steiner
Springer
University of Pittsburgh
University of Minnesota
Concepts
Mechanics
Variational principles
Motion (physical)
Physics
Mathematical physics
Gravitation
People
Euler, Leonhard
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
König, Samuel
Robins, Benjamin
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Time Periods
18th century
Places
France
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