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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet ( French pronunciation: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ⓘ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749.
Du Châtelet, born on December 17, 1706 as Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, was born at a time when women weren't normally active in public intellectual life. Unlike most women of the...
Emilie Du Châtelet was a philosopher, physicist, and mathematician, and a key figure in the reception and development of Newtonian mechanics in France and beyond.
Du Châtelet is the only French woman author of a work included in the corpus of clandestine philosophical literature, a genre that flourished in the eighteenth century and included forbidden works such as political pamphlets, satires of court life and of the nobility, and forbidden religious texts.
Feb 27, 2019 · Emilie — and her legacy — is very much alive in the 21st century. Her literary, scientific, and mathematical opus outlives her.
Sep 10, 2011 · Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton's Principia. View nine larger pictures. Biography. We should first make some remarks about Émilie du Châtelet's name.
Jul 22, 2016 · Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the Marquise Du Châtelet, was for a long time best known as the lover and companion of Voltaire. But the “divine Émilie,” as he called her, was a brilliant figure of the Enlightenment in her own right.
