@inbook{34707, abstract = {{Of the many outstanding female philosophers of the European Enlightenment, Emilie Du Châtelet excelled as a physicist, a philosopher, and a mathematician, as well as a Bible critic. She was famous in her lifetime and was not completely forgotten thereafter. Among her admirers, correspondents and friends were the most acknowledged scholars of her time, including Voltaire, Clairault, Maupertuis, Diderot, Helvetius, La Mettrie, Buffon, Christian Wolff, Leonard Euler, and Johann II Bernoulli. Her philosophical work enjoyed high reputation and her opus magnum, the Institutions physiques, was translated into Italian and German and proved her to be an intellectual of European stature. Its defense of living forces and its implied forecast into dynamics as well as her methodological grounding of scientific knowledge as hypothetical, impacted philosophy and science. Reality must by nature escape us. What we perceive are phenomena. Du Châtelet explains the function of space and time to trace us back to the origin of phenomena. Her influence on Kant is evident. Next to her writings in physics, mathematics, philosophy, language, and logic, she contributed to morality and ethics. Du Châtelet left an opus of quite systematic breadth. This impressive publishing activity excels in the amount of its scientific and philosophical production to which a vast collection of manuscripts must be added.She argued against prejudice and idolatry in philosophy and science. Science is a cooperative undertaking over history and beyond nations. Her moral writings align with ideas of the French materialists. Du Châtelet translated and commented on Newton’s Principia, preparing thus the fertile soil of the generation of physicists to come in France.}}, author = {{Hagengruber, Ruth}}, booktitle = {{Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences}}, isbn = {{9783319207919}}, keywords = {{aura Bassi Luise Gottsched Immanuel Kant Dourtous de Mairan Johann II Bernoulli Algarotti Buffon d’Alembert La Mettrie Principle of contradiction Hypotheses Enlightenment Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence Living forces Dead forces, happiness Space Imaginary beings Monads Epicurus Ethics Women philosophers Newton’s laws Principia Motion inertia Active force Vis viva Vis mortua Hypothetic reasoning Hypotheses, a priori principles, Experience, Dead forces, Living forces, Energy Dynamics}}, publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}}, title = {{{Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1}}, year = {{2021}}, } @book{12085, abstract = {{In diesem Band werden neueste Forschungen zur Physikerin, Mathematikerin und Philosophin Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749) vorgestellt. Emilie Du Châtelet genoss in der deutschen Aufklärung eine hohe Reputation. Sie verband Leibniz Metaphysik mit der Physik von Newton und gelangte zu erstaunlichen Ergebnissen, die die Physik auf den Weg zu Einsteins Energieformel führte. Ihre Werke wurden sofort ins Deutsche übersetzt, Kant nimmt in seiner ersten Dissertation von 1747 auf sie Bezug. Die Sammlung stellt Texte vor, die den Einfluss der deutschen Aufklärung auf Du Châtelets und Du Châtelets Einfluss auf die deutsche Philosophie diskutieren. Die großen Namen der Epoche stehen hier zur Debatte, Leibniz, Wolff, Boskovic, Euler, Friedrich II, Voltaire, La Mettrie und viele weitere Größen der Aufklärung werden in ihrem Zusammenhang mit Du Châtelet vorgestellt. }}, editor = {{Hagengruber, Ruth and Hecht, Hartmut}}, isbn = {{ISBN 978-3-658-14022-9}}, keywords = {{Emilie Du Châtelet, Immanuel Kant, Leibniz, Aufklärung, Christian Wolff, Luise Gottsched}}, pages = {{420}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung}}}, volume = {{3 }}, year = {{2019}}, } @article{12933, abstract = {{Abstract · Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), Laura Bassi (1711-1778), and Luise Gottsched (1713-1762) were three philosophers and scientists of outstanding im-portance in their epoch. However, the attribution of importance and reputation to women’s intellectual achievements in this period is a case of its own. This paper investigates the methodical attempt of 18th century historiography, presenting the example of Jakob Brucker and his Pinacoteca to relocate intellectual women in his history of philosophy and science. The relative integration of women into the 18th century intellectual sphere is the starting point of this methodical investigation to retrace its ‘why and how’. Keywords : Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Gottsched, Laura Bassi, History, Philoso-phy, Science.}}, author = {{Hagengruber, Ruth}}, journal = {{Bruniana & Campanelliana}}, keywords = {{Keywords : Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Gottsched, Laura Bassi, History, Philosophy, Science.}}, number = {{Studi 18}}, publisher = {{Fabrizio Serra Roma Pisa }}, title = {{{Relocating Women in the History of Philosophy and Science. Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), Laura Bassi (1711-1778), and Luise Gottsched (1713-1762) in Brucker’s Pinacotheca}}}, volume = {{Suppl XLIII}}, year = {{2019}}, }