Titlebook: Époque Émilienne; Philosophy and Scien Ruth Edith Hagengruber Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive li

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93285-4t “Essai sur l‘optique.” Émilie du Châtelet’s reflections are thereby traced against the background of the critical reception of Newton’s optics, a critique that can be found, for example, in Nicolas Malebranche, Christian Wolff, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer or in Johann I and Johann II Bernoulli.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93502-2ry of the “system of the world” stood in the late 1740s. Specifically, the second half provides calculus solutions for problems solved geometrically in the ., and the non-mathematical first half identifies a number of then-standing discrepancies between Newtonian theory and the current state of rese

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,Ingenieurökologie als Aufgabe, argue that . is an important indicator of Du Châtelet’s high standing in the scientific and philosophical debates of the eighteenth-century. I place the translation in the context of Italian natural philosophy of the . and the Leibniz-Newton debates; the involvement of women in Italian intellectual

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Herausforderungen und Konflikte des Alters,covered ms. sources suggest that the contacts between Émilie Du Châtelet and Antonio Conti can shed light on how the Italian translation of the . came into being. Early on he was acquainted with the first French edition of the ., because the author sent him a copy hot off the press, together with th

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Herausforderungen und Konflikte des Alters,s-references to each other’s ideas with Voltaire in the centre. I will follow two threads in their works. The one is the vanishing of the Platonic model of conceptualizing love as an affective state, the main part of which must be looked for in the heavenly realms. The other is the way how Epicurean

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U. Klein,M. R. Tetz,E. Alexandridiss at the supposed evidence, showing first of all that certain remarks in his writings have mistakenly been taken to be references to du Châtelet. The main discussion concerns a .addressed to her, published under La Mettrie’s name as an introduction to a new edition of his . in 1747. The attribution

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U. Klein,M. R. Tetz,E. Alexandridisto happiness. It does so by taking a contextualizing approach, contrasting her views with the views on illusions and happiness in Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Bernard de Fontenelle. I will argue for three claims: (1) Du Châtelet’s view that illusions are akin to perceptions that are favorable to

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