Émilie du Châtelet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Émilie du Châtelet


00:01:39 1 Contribution to philosophy
00:03:58 2 Biography
00:04:07 2.1 Early life
00:05:25 2.2 Early education
00:07:12 2.3 Marriage
00:07:48 2.4 Children
00:08:35 2.5 Resumption of studies
00:09:37 2.6 Relationship with Voltaire
00:11:14 2.6.1 Social life after living with Voltaire
00:11:47 2.7 Final pregnancy and death
00:12:26 3 Scientific research and publications
00:12:36 3.1 Criticizing Locke and the debate on ithinking matter/i
00:14:08 3.2 Heat and light
00:14:31 3.3 iInstitutions de Physique/i
00:15:07 3.4 Forces Vives
00:16:00 3.5 Advocacy of kinetic energy
00:18:52 3.6 Translation and commentary on Newton's iPrincipia/i
00:19:42 4 Other contributions
00:19:51 4.1 Development of financial derivatives
00:20:30 4.2 Biblical scholarship
00:21:04 4.3 Discourse on happiness
00:21:21 4.4 Translation of the iFable of the Bees/i, and other works
00:21:43 4.5 Support of women's education
00:22:14 5 Legacy
00:23:27 6 Works
00:24:10 7 See also



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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French pronunciation: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] (listen); 17 December 1706  – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s until her untimely death due to childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Principia containing basic laws of physics. The translation, published posthumously in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation today.  Her commentary includes a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element.
Her philosophical magnum opus, Institutions de Physique (Paris, 1740, first edition), or Foundations of Physics, circulated widely, generated heated debates, and was republished and translated into several other languages within two years of its original publication. She participated in the famous vis viva debate, concerning the best way to measure the force of a body and the best means of thinking about conservation principles. Posthumously, her ideas were heavily represented in the most famous text of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert, first published shortly after Du Châtelet's death. Numerous biographies, books and plays have been written about her life and work in the two centuries since her death. In the early 21st century, her life and ideas have generated renewed interest.