Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hagengruber, Ruth (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 205
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.