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1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) |
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Archives internationales d'histoire des idées/International archives of the history of ideas, 0066-6610 ; 205 |
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Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 205
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| Contents |
Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber -- In the spirit of Leibniz : two approaches from 1742 / Hartmut Hecht -- Between Newton and Leibnitz : Emilie du Châtelet and Samuel Clarke / Sarah Hutton -- "Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis" : Emilie du Châtelet's rediscovered Essai sur l'optique and her relation to the mathematicians from Basel / Fritz Nagel -- Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Châtelet : on the post-Newtonian development of mechanics / Dieter Suisky -- Leibniz's quantity of force: a heresy? : Emilie du Châtelet's Institutions in the context of the vis viva controversy / Andrea Reichenberger -- From translation to philosophical discourse : Emilie du Châtelet's commentaries on Newton and Leibniz / Ursula Winter |
| Summary |
Emilie du Châtelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her writings on natural philosophy, physics, and mechanics had a decisive impact on important scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, she took an innovative and outstanding position in the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, one of the fundamental scientific discourses of that time. The contributions in this volume focus on this "Leibnitian turn". They analyze the nature and motivation of Emilie du Châtelet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Châtelet's annotated translation of Isaac Newton's Principia. The chapters presented here collectively demonstrate that her work was an essential contribution to the mediation between empiricist and rationalist positions in the history of science |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Humanities |
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Philosophy |
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History of Philosophy |
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History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
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Cultural Heritage |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
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| SUBJECT |
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749 fast |
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Science -- Philosophy -- History
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hagengruber, Ruth.
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| ISBN |
9789400720930 |
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9400720939 |
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