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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.
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.
Jul 22, 2016 · Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the Marquise Du Châtelet, was for a long time best known as the lover and companion of Voltaire. But the “divine Émilie,” as he called her, was a brilliant figure of the Enlightenment in her own right.
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.
Émilie Du Châtelet was one of the most important natural philosophers of the 18th century. Her work draws on the Continental rationalist tradition, including Descartes, Leibniz, and Wolff, as well as on the British empiricist and experimental tradition, including Locke and Newton. Her main work, the Institutions de Physique, was published in ...
Feb 25, 2021 · Introduction. Of the many outstanding female philosophers of the European Enlightenment, Emilie Du Châtelet excelled as a physicist, a philosopher, and a mathematician, as well as a Bible critic. She was famous in her lifetime and was not completely forgotten thereafter.
