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  title info:
    title: Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton
  name:
    name part: Hagengruber, Ruth.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 256 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton: The Transformation of Metaphysics, R. Hagengruber -- Maupertuis’ Lettre sur la comète, H. Hecht -- Between Newton and Leibniz: Emilie du Châtelet and Samuel Clarke, S. Hutton -- “Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis”. Emilie du Châtelet’s rediscovered Essai sur l’optique and her relation to the mathematicians from Basel, F. Nagel -- Leonhard Euler and Emilie Du Châtelet. On the post-Newtonian development of mechanics, D. Suisky -- Leibniz’s quantity of force: a ‘heresy’? Emilie Du Châtelets Institutions in the context of the vis viva controversy, A. Reichenberger -- From translation to philosophical discourse – Emilie du Châtelet's commentaries on Newton and Leibniz, U. Winter -- Selected Bibliography Emilie Du Châtelet.
  note: edited by Ruth Hagengruber.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Cultural heritage
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Heritage
  classification: B108-5802
  classification: 180-190
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 205
  identifier: 9789400720930
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2093-0
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    record creation date: 111027
    record change date: 20151111202019.0
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