[PDF] Voltaire And The French Academy eBook

Author : Karlis Racevskis
Publisher : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 1975
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ISBN : 9780807891636

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Volume 163 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
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ISBN : 9781385798300

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T148330 Preface: 'A French translation of [Shakespeare] which had obtained a very liberal subscription, gave occasion to this appeal'. With a half-title. London: printed for J. Bew, 1777. [4], v, [1], ii,42p.; 8°

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
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Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3989888765

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A new translation directly from the original French manuscript of Voltaire's 1762 Republican Ideas by a Member of the Academy. This edition also contains supplemental material on Voltaire including an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Voltaire's life and works, summaries of each of the works in his corpus, and a glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Voltaire. This is a political essay in which he argued for the establishment of a republican form of government in France. Along with Rousseau, Voltaire's writings also helped to inspire a wave of political reform in France and laid the foundation of the revolutions of the late 17th and early 18th century.

Author : J.B. Shank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 022650932X

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We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that grew from French culture in general. Before Voltaire explores how Newton’s ideas made their way not just through the realm of French science, but into the larger world of society and culture of which Principia was an intertwined part. Shank also details a history of the beginnings of calculus-based mathematical physics that integrates it into the larger intellectual currents in France at the time, including the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns, the emergence of wider audiences for science, and the role of the newly reorganized Royal Academy of Sciences. The resulting book offers an unprecedented cultural history of one the most important and influential elements of Enlightenment science.