Ebook: Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton
- Genre: History // Memoirs; Biographies
- Tags: History of Philosophy, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Cultural Heritage
- Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 205
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
Emilie du Ch?telet 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 Ch?telet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Ch?telet'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.
Emilie du Ch?telet 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 Ch?telet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Ch?telet'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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Emilie du Ch?telet Between Leibniz and Newton: The Transformation of Metaphysics....Pages 1-59
In the Spirit of Leibniz – Two Approaches from 1742....Pages 61-75
Between Newton and Leibniz: Emilie du Ch?telet and Samuel Clarke....Pages 77-95
“Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis”. Emilie du Ch?telet’s Rediscovered Essai sur l’optique and Her Relation to the Mathematicians from Basel....Pages 97-112
Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Ch?telet. On the Post-Newtonian Development of Mechanics....Pages 113-155
Leibniz’s Quantity of Force: A ‘Heresy’? Emilie du Ch?telet’s Institutions in the Context of the Vis Viva Controversy....Pages 157-171
From Translation to Philosophical Discourse – Emilie du Ch?telet’s Commentaries on Newton and Leibniz....Pages 173-206
Emilie du Ch?telet, a Bibliography....Pages 207-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-253
Emilie du Ch?telet 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 Ch?telet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Ch?telet'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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Emilie du Ch?telet Between Leibniz and Newton: The Transformation of Metaphysics....Pages 1-59
In the Spirit of Leibniz – Two Approaches from 1742....Pages 61-75
Between Newton and Leibniz: Emilie du Ch?telet and Samuel Clarke....Pages 77-95
“Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis”. Emilie du Ch?telet’s Rediscovered Essai sur l’optique and Her Relation to the Mathematicians from Basel....Pages 97-112
Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Ch?telet. On the Post-Newtonian Development of Mechanics....Pages 113-155
Leibniz’s Quantity of Force: A ‘Heresy’? Emilie du Ch?telet’s Institutions in the Context of the Vis Viva Controversy....Pages 157-171
From Translation to Philosophical Discourse – Emilie du Ch?telet’s Commentaries on Newton and Leibniz....Pages 173-206
Emilie du Ch?telet, a Bibliography....Pages 207-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-253
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