Re: [HM] Voltaire and Newton

Luis Carlos Arboleda (lca@norma.net)
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:41:15 -0500

> Voltaire was a patient and deep scholar of Newton's work, and later on,
> in France was the chief communicator of Newtonian's opinions. Actually
> I don't see a contradiction on Voltaire's opinions, since he was just
> airing his point of view concerning science versus military men but I
> would really like to know what were Voltaire's real feelings about
> science and scholars.
>
> Carlos Martinez Yanez

You can find information on the feelings of Voltaire with respect to the new
Newtonian science and the Newtonians of his epoca, in the following work:

Lafuente A. y Arboleda, L.C. (1995): Voltaire, Elementos de la filosofia de
Newton. Traduccion con Introduccion y notas. (Contiene el estudio: Voltaire
y la difusion del newtonianismo). Editora de la Universidad del Valle. Cali.
Colombia. Segunda edicion, IN: Lafuente, A. (1996): Isaac Newton: El Sistema
del Mundo; Voltaire: Los Elementos de la Filosofia de Newton. Barcelona,
Circulo de Lectores, Biblioteca Universal.

Luis Carlos Arboleda A.
Grupo de Educacion Matematica
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