Eighteenth century studies
Subtitle: presented to Arthur M. Wilson.
By: Edited by Peter Gay.
Contributors: Wilson, Arthur McCandless, 1902-; Gay, Peter, 1923- ed.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century; Eighteenth century
Table of contents: title: Dickey, J. S. Preface.; title: Baxter, Stephen B. The age of personal monarchy in England.; title: Hanna, B. T. Polinière and the teaching of experimental physics at Paris: 1700-1730.; title: Desné, R. The role of England in Voltaire's polemic against Pascal: apropos the twenty-fifth Philosophical letter.; title: Gay, P. Why was the Enlightenment?; title: Kuhns, R. Hume's republic and the universe of Newton.; title: Clifford, J. L. Johnson and foreign visitors to London: Baretti and others.; title: Proust, J. Diderot and legal theories of antiquity.; title: Casini, P. The Crudeli Affair: inquisition and reason of state.; title: Mortier, R. Sensibility, Neoclassicism, or Preromanticism?; title: Knapton, E. J. The philosophes and Napoleon.; title: The writings of Arthur M. Wilson (p. 187-190)