Article ID: CBB001213943

Faux accords et vrais désaccords: Rhétoriques et stratégies de la controverse dans le réseau de correspondance de Leonhard Euler (2013)

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Bodenmann, Siegfried (Author)


Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Volume: 66, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 361-394


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “La guerre en lettres: La controverse scientifique dans les correspondances des Lumières”
Language: French

In this paper I intend to study the relations between the epistolary practices and the scientific controversies of the early modern period through the prism of the extensive correspondence of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). In particular I shall focus on the more or less vigorous disputes that Euler had with Georges-Louis Lesage, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Alexis-Claude Clairaut concerning the law of universal gravitation, various mathematical problems and the movement of the lunar apsis. Thus, I endeavour to present a whole series of practices and tacit rules, which are constitutive of the scientific process and allow us to establish what could be defined as an ethic of controversy.

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Authors & Contributors
Franz Lemmermeyer
Mattmüller, Martin
Goldbach, Christian
Euler, Leonhard
Jouve, Guillame
Denisova, Ekaterina
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Mathematics
Controversies and disputes
Gravitation
Rhetoric in scientific discourse
Physics
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Great Britain
Manila (Philippines)
France
Finland
Berlin (Germany)
Institutions
French East India Company
Dutch East India Company
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