L’économie de la nature : Fontenelle et le principe de moindre action
In his Principe de la moindre quantité d’action pour la mécanique (1744), Maupertuis defines the principle of least action as follows: “when some change occurs in Nature, the amount of action used for this change is always the smallest possible”. If this formula is not used by Fontenelle himself, it...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2024-02-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/17111 |
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