Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber, editor.

SeriesArchives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 0066-6610 ; 205
Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 205. ^A494673
Contents Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber -- In the spirit of Leibniz : two approaches from 1742 / Hartmut Hecht -- Between Newton and Leibnitz : Emilie du Châtelet and Samuel Clarke / Sarah Hutton -- "Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis" : Emilie du Châtelet's rediscovered Essai sur l'optique and her relation to the mathematicians from Basel / Fritz Nagel -- Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Châtelet : on the post-Newtonian development of mechanics / Dieter Suisky -- Leibniz's quantity of force: a heresy? : Emilie du Châtelet's Institutions in the context of the vis viva controversy / Andrea Reichenberger -- From translation to philosophical discourse : Emilie du Châtelet's commentaries on Newton and Leibniz / Ursula Winter.
General notePapers presented at a symposium held in 2006, in observance of the 300th birthday of Emilie du Châtelet, at the Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Potsdam, Germany.
Bibliography noteIncludes a bibliography of works by and about Emilie du Châtelet on p. 207-246.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsAlso available online.
LCCN 2011939188
ISBN9789400720749
ISBN9400720742

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