---
_id: '34707'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 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:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
citation:
  ama: 'Hagengruber R. Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In: <i>Encyclopedia of Early
    Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing; 2021.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>'
  apa: Hagengruber, R. (2021). Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In <i>Encyclopedia
    of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>
  bibtex: '@inbook{Hagengruber_2021, place={Cham}, title={Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>},
    booktitle={Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences}, publisher={Springer
    International Publishing}, author={Hagengruber, Ruth}, year={2021} }'
  chicago: 'Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” In <i>Encyclopedia
    of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Cham: Springer International
    Publishing, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.'
  ieee: 'R. Hagengruber, “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749),” in <i>Encyclopedia of
    Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Cham: Springer International Publishing,
    2021.'
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” <i>Encyclopedia of Early
    Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Springer International Publishing, 2021,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.
  short: 'R. Hagengruber, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences,
    Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021.'
date_created: 2022-12-21T11:54:55Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T10:06:49Z
department:
- _id: '615'
- _id: '14'
- _id: '519'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1
keyword:
- 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
language:
- iso: eng
place: Cham
publication: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783319207919'
  - '9783319207919'
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
status: public
title: Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)
type: book_chapter
user_id: '14931'
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '12085'
abstract:
- lang: ger
  text: '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. '
citation:
  ama: Hagengruber R, Hecht H, eds. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung</i>.
    Vol 3. Springer; 2019.
  apa: Hagengruber, R., &#38; Hecht, H. (Eds.). (2019). <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und
    die deutsche Aufklärung</i> (Vol. 3). Springer.
  bibtex: '@book{Hagengruber_Hecht_2019, place={Wiesbaden}, series={ Philosophie History
    of Science Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists.},
    title={Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung}, volume={3}, publisher={Springer},
    year={2019}, collection={ Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie
    und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists.} }'
  chicago: 'Hagengruber, Ruth, and Hartmut Hecht, eds. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die
    deutsche Aufklärung</i>. Vol. 3.  Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie
    und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019.'
  ieee: 'R. Hagengruber and H. Hecht, Eds., <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche
    Aufklärung</i>, vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019.'
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth, and Hartmut Hecht, editors. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die
    deutsche Aufklärung</i>. Springer, 2019.
  short: R. Hagengruber, H. Hecht, eds., Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung,
    Springer, Wiesbaden, 2019.
date_created: 2019-07-19T09:56:16Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T09:46:30Z
department:
- _id: '519'
editor:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
- first_name: Hartmut
  full_name: Hecht, Hartmut
  last_name: Hecht
keyword:
- Emilie Du Châtelet
- Immanuel Kant
- Leibniz
- Aufklärung
- Christian Wolff
- Luise Gottsched
language:
- iso: ger
page: '420'
place: Wiesbaden
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - ISBN 978-3-658-14022-9
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
series_title: ' Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft.
  Women Philosophers and Scientists.'
status: public
title: Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung
type: book_editor
user_id: '14931'
volume: '3 '
year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '12933'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "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’.\r\nKeywords : Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Gottsched,
    Laura Bassi, History, Philoso-phy, Science."
alternative_title:
- Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), Laura Bassi (1711-1778), and Luise Gottsched (1713-1762)
  in Brucker’s Pinacotheca
author:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
citation:
  ama: Hagengruber R. 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. <i>Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana</i>. 2019;Suppl XLIII(Studi
    18).
  apa: Hagengruber, R. (2019). 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. <i>Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana</i>, <i>Suppl XLIII</i>(Studi
    18).
  bibtex: '@article{Hagengruber_2019, 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}, number={Studi
    18}, journal={Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana}, publisher={Fabrizio Serra Roma Pisa
    }, author={Hagengruber, Ruth}, year={2019} }'
  chicago: Hagengruber, Ruth. “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.” <i>Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana</i> Suppl XLIII, no.
    Studi 18 (2019).
  ieee: R. Hagengruber, “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,” <i>Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana</i>, vol. Suppl XLIII,
    no. Studi 18, 2019.
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth. “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.” <i>Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana</i>, vol. Suppl XLIII,
    no. Studi 18, Fabrizio Serra Roma Pisa , 2019.
  short: R. Hagengruber, Bruniana &#38; Campanelliana Suppl XLIII (2019).
date_created: 2019-08-16T10:22:05Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T09:48:01Z
department:
- _id: '519'
issue: Studi 18
keyword:
- 'Keywords : Emilie Du Châtelet'
- Luise Gottsched
- Laura Bassi
- History
- Philosophy
- Science.
language:
- iso: eng
- iso: ita
publication: Bruniana & Campanelliana
publication_identifier:
  eisbn:
  - 978-88-3315-176-2
publisher: 'Fabrizio Serra Roma Pisa '
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
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
type: journal_article
user_id: '14931'
volume: Suppl XLIII
year: '2019'
...