José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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1 Introduction: Historical Accounts of Newtonianisms in Newtoniana
2 The Administrative History of a Chair
	Models and Context for a New Faculty
	Creating the Cátedra of Mathematics
	Vicissitudes in the 1770s
	Caballero y Góngora and the Definitive Re-establishment of the Cátedra
	The Fate of the Lecture After Its Re-establishment
	The Institutionalisation of Newtonianism in the Cátedra
3 Newtonianism in Mutis’s Lectures on Mathematics
	Unawareness and Myth in the Studies on Mutis’s Lectures
	The Utility of Mathematics: Mutis and the Relationship Between Mathematics and Physics
	The Scope of Mutis’s Lectures on Mathematics
	Mutis’s Lectures on Arithmetic: Wolff’s Influence and the Importance of Logarithms
	Descartes’s Géométrie in Mutis’s Lectures
	Calculus and Newton’s Method of Fluxions in Mutis’s Lectures
4 Newton’s Physics in New Granada: Mutis’s Lectures and Mathematisation of Nature
	Mutis’s Appropriation of Newton’s Mathematical Approach to Physics
	Newton’s Methodology in Mutis’s Lectures on Physics
	“The Investigation of Difficult Things”: The Method of Analysis and Synthesis and Its Application to Physics in Mutis’s Lectures
	Newton’s Rules for Philosophy in New Granada
	Laws of Nature and the Motion of Bodies in Conic Sections: Theoretical Aspects of Newton’s Physics in Mutis’s Lectures on Physics
	The Translation of Newton’s Principia in the Context of the Cátedra
5 The Circulation of Newtonianism in New Granada After Mutis’s Lectures
	Mutis’s Lectures: The Public and the Private
	Juan Eloy Valenzuela: The First Disciple of Mutis
	Newton in the College: Juan Eloy Valenzuela’s Lectures at the Colegio del Rosario
	Newtonianism Outside Santafé: José Félix de Restrepo’s Lecciones de física
	The Presence of Newton in Restrepo’s Lecciones
6 Conclusions
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