This book documents the process of transformation from natural
philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences
until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as
mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and
engineering. It focuses on the 18th century, which has often been
considered uninteresting for the history of science, representing
the transition from the age of genius and the birth of modern
science (the 17th century) to the age of prodigious development in
the 19th century. Yet the 18th century, the century of
Enlightenment, as will be demonstrated here, was in fact
characterized by substantial ferment and novelty. To make the text
more accessible, little emphasis has been placed on the precise
genesis of the various concepts and methods developed in scientific
enterprises, except when doing so was necessary to make them clear.
For the sake of simplicity, in several situations reference is made
to the authors who are famous today, such as Newton, the
Bernoullis, Euler, d'Alembert, Lagrange, Lambert, Volta et al. -
not necessarily because they were the most creative and original
minds, but mainly because their writings represent a synthesis of
contemporary and past studies. The above names should, therefore,
be considered more labels of a period than references to real
historical characters.
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