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  1. 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.

  2. May 29, 2013 · Émilie du Châtelet. First published Wed May 29, 2013; substantive revision Fri Jun 13, 2014. Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomontor simply Émilie Du Châteletwas born in Paris on 17 December 1706 to baron Louis Nicholas le Tonnelier de Breteuil and Gabrielle Anne de Froullay, Baronne de Breteuil.

  3. Kat Eschner. Updated: December 17, 2021 | Originally Published: December 15, 2017. The face of a genius. Wikimedia Commons. Editor's note, December 17, 2021: In honor of Émilie du...

  4. Sep 10, 2011 · Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton's Principia.

  5. Jul 22, 2016 · 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. 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.

  6. www.thenewhistoria.org › schema › emilie-du-chateletÉmilie Du Châtelet

    May 16, 2024 · September 10, 1749. Émilie Du Châtelet was one of the most important natural philosophers of the 18th century. Her work draws on the Continental rationalist tradition, including Descartes, Leibniz, and Wolff, as well as on the British empiricist and experimental tradition, including Locke and Newton. Her main work, the Institutions de ...

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  8. 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. In 1725, she married the Marquis Florent-Claude Du Châtelet-Lomont (1695-1765), and thereafter received an outstanding education, studying mathematics with Pierre Louis Moreau de ...

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