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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet ( French pronunciation: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ⓘ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749.
May 29, 2013 · Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont—or simply Émilie Du Châtelet—was born in Paris on 17 December 1706 to baron Louis Nicholas le Tonnelier de Breteuil and Gabrielle Anne de Froullay, Baronne de Breteuil. She married Marquis Florent-Claude de Châtelet-Lomont in 1725.
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (également du Chastelet, ou du Chastellet [3]), née le 17 décembre 1706 à Paris et morte le 10 septembre 1749 à Lunéville, est une femme de lettres, mathématicienne et physicienne française, figure du Siècle des Lumières.
Dec 17, 2021 · You probably haven’t heard of Émilie du Châtelet. But without her contributions, the French Enlightenment of the 1700s would have looked much different. Here are five things to know about...
Sep 10, 2011 · Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton's Principia. View nine larger pictures. Biography. We should first make some remarks about Émilie du Châtelet's name.
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet was a French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica.
Emilie Du Châtelet was a philosopher, physicist, and mathematician, and a key figure in the reception and development of Newtonian mechanics in France and beyond.
Emilie du Châtelet. December 17, 1706 - September 10, 1749. Written by Sasha Mandic, Class of 1997 (Agnes Scott College) In a society where nobility disliked the notion of education for their daughters arose one of the great mathematicians of the eighteenth century, Frenchwoman, Emilie du Châtelet.
Du Châtelet is the only French woman author of a work included in the corpus of clandestine philosophical literature, a genre that flourished in the eighteenth century and included forbidden works such as political pamphlets, satires of court life and of the nobility, and forbidden religious texts.
It was in this context that Emilie du Châtelet became the principal woman “physicien [physicist],” and “géomètre [mathematician]” of the first half of the eighteenth century. Ironically, of all the known European women writers of this era, she is the only one whose separate reputation has been lost.
