Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hagengruber, Ruth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 205
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Cultural heritage.; Physics.; History of Philosophy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Cultural Heritage.

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 contr...