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Title:

Emilie du Ch©Øtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber, editor.

Publisher:

Springer,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xvi, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Physics--History--History--18th century.
Physics--History--History--17th century.
Science--History--History--18th century.
Science--History--History--17th century.
Du Ch©Øtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil,--marquise,--1706-1749.
Newton, Isaac,--1642-1727--Influence.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,--Freiherr von,--1646-1716--Influence.
Science--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Hagengruber, Ruth.
Forschungszentrum Europ©Þische Aufkl©Þrung (Potsdam, Germany)

Notes:

"[Papers presented at] the conference on Emilie du Ch©Øtelet in honor of her 300th birthday ... [held] at the Research Center for European Enlightenment in the autumn of 2006 in Potsdam"--P. v. "Emilie du Ch©Øtelet, a bibliography [by] Ana Rodrigues": p. 207-246. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Emilie du Ch©Øtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber -- In the spirit of Leibniz : two approaches from 1742 / Hartmut Hecht -- Between Newton and Leibnitz : Emilie du Ch©Øtelet and Samuel Clarke / Sarah Hutton -- "Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis" : Emilie du Ch©Øtelet's rediscovered Essai sur l'optique and her relation to the mathematicians from Basel / Fritz Nagel -- Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Ch©Øtelet : on the post-Newtonian development of mechanics / Dieter Suisky -- Leibniz's quantity of force : a heresy? : Emilie du Ch©Øtelet's Institutions in the context of the vis viva controversy / Andrea Reichenberger -- From translation to philosophical discourse : Emilie du Ch©Øtelet's commentaries on Newton and Leibniz / Ursula Winter.

Series:

International archives of the history of ideas, International archives of the history of ideas, 0066-6610 ; 205

ISBN:

9400720742 (acid-free paper)
9789400720749 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)740630019

LCCN:

2011939188

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)