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

Pages 175-188 | Published online: 09 Jun 2008

Notes

  • 1768 . ‘Appendix’ to Maupertuis’ . Accord des differentes lois de la nature , IV : 24 – 5 .
  • ‘Mémoire de M. Euler’ . Mémoires de L'Académie Royale des Sciences de Berlin , VII
  • Leibniz . 1875–90 . ‘. . . l'effet entier est toujours équivalent à sa cause plein’ . II : 36 1768

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