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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Main Author: Christophe Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2024-02-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/17111
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