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“L’amore per lo studio è la passione più necessaria alla nostra felicità; è una risorsa sicura contro le disgrazie e una fonte inesauribile di gratificazione”: l’autoritratto di Émilie du Châtelet sta nella cornice di queste parole. Accanto a Voltaire inseguì il desiderio di capire il mondo e divenne la più celebre donna di scienza del secolo XVIII. Ma Émilie nutriva soprattutto l’ambizione di essere ricordata: è l’oblìo la morte peggiore.

Du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

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Philosophers --- Physicists --- Women philosophers --- Women physicists --- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil,

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Authors, French --- Scientists --- Feminists --- Mistresses --- Voltaire, - 1694-1778 --- Du Chatelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, - marquise, - 1706-1749

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The centerpiece of Émilie Du Châtelet's philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics, including such pressing issues of the time as whether there are atoms, the appropriate roles of God and of hypotheses in scientific theorizing, how (if at all) bodies are capable of acting on one another, and whether gravity is an action-at-a-distance force. Du Châtelet sought to resolve these issues within a single philosophical framework that builds on her critique and appraisal of all the leading alternatives (Cartesian, Newtonian, Leibnizian, and so forth) of the period. The text is remarkable for being the first to attempt such a synthetic project, and even more so for the accessibility and clarity of the writing. This book argues that Du Châtelet put her finger on the central problems that lay at the intersection of physics and metaphysics at the time, and tackled them drawing on the most up-to-date resources available. It will be a useful source for students and scholars interested in the history and philosophy of science, and in the impact of women philosophers in the early modern period.

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