Book ID: CBB000775247

Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (2006)

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Zinsser, Judith P. (Editor)
Hayes, Julie Candler (Editor)


Voltaire Foundation


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xi + 325 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Terrall, Mary (2008) Review of "Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 141). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Zinsser, Judith P.; Hayes, Julie Candler (2006) The Marquise as philosophe. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 24). unapi

Chapter Iverson, John R. (2006) A Female Member of the Republic of Letters: Du Châtelet's Portrait in the Bilder-Sal [...] Berümhter Schrifftsteller. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 35). unapi

Chapter Inguenaud, Marie-Thérèse (2006) La Grosse et le Monstre: histoire d'une haine. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Saisselin, Rémy G. (2006) Portraiture and the Ambiguity of Being. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 91). unapi

Chapter Lee, J. Patrick (2006) Le Recueil de poésies: manuscrit de Mme Du Châtelete. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 105). unapi

Chapter Mason, Adrienne (2006) “L'air du climat et le goût du terroir”: Translation as Cultural Capital in the Writings of Mme Du Châtelet. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 124). unapi

Chapter Schwarzbach, Bertram Eugene (2006) Mme Du Châtelet's Examens de la Bible and Voltaire's La Bible enfin expliquée. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 142). unapi

Chapter Gauvin, Jean-François (2006) Le cabinet de physique du château de Cirey et la philosophie naturelle de Mme Du Châtelet et de Voltaire. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Moriarty, Paul Veatch (2006) The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Du Châtelet's Institutions. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Emch-Dériaz, Antoinette; Emch, Gérard G. (2006) On Newton's French Translator: How Faithful was Mme Du Châtelet?. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 226). unapi

Chapter Whitehead, Barbara (2006) The Singularity of Mme Du Châtelet: An Analysis of the Discours sur le bonheur. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 255). unapi

Chapter Redien-Collot, Renaud (2006) Emilie Du Châtelet et les femmes: entre l'attitude prométhéenne et la pleine assomption du statut de minoritaire. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 277). unapi

Chapter Lecoat, Nanette (2006) “Le génie de la sécheresse”: Mme Du Châtelet in the Eyes of Her Second Empire critics. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 292). unapi

Chapter Barber, W. H. (2006) Mme Du Châtelet and Leibnizianism: The Genesis of the Institutions de physique. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 5). unapi

Chapter Zinsser, Judith P.; Hayes, Julie Candler (2006) Rereading W. H. Barber. In: Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (p. 3). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kawashima, Keiko
Zinsser, Judith P.
Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Tirard, Stéphane
Shank, J. B.
Petrovich, Vesna Crnjanski
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, London
化学史研究 [Kagakushi kenkyū; Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Springer Nature
Springer Spektrum
Oxford University Press
Association pour la Sauvegarde et le Patrimoine Métallurgique Haut-Marnais
Concepts
Women in science
Physics
Newtonianism
Science
Mathematics
Science and gender
People
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Newton, Isaac
Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Mairan, Jean Jacques Dortous de
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
France
Paris (France)
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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