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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.
May 29, 2013 · Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont—or simply Émilie Du Châtelet—was born in Paris on 17 December 1706 to baron Louis Nicholas le Tonnelier de Breteuil and Gabrielle Anne de Froullay, Baronne de Breteuil. She married Marquis Florent-Claude de Châtelet-Lomont in 1725.
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.
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (également du Chastelet, ou du Chastellet [3]), née le 17 décembre 1706 à Paris et morte le 10 septembre 1749 à Lunéville, est une femme de lettres, mathématicienne et physicienne française, figure du Siècle des Lumières.
Dec 17, 2021 · 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.
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.
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.
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) Andrea Reichenberger presents a fulcrum of the European Enlightenment. Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, was born on 17 December 1706 in Paris, the only girl amongst six children.
Feb 27, 2019 · The Marquise Emilie du Châtelet, physicist, philosopher, mathematician and mother, is entombed in a beautiful baroque church in Lunéville, in eastern France. On that black tomb at the entrance into the sanctuary, there is nothing.
Emilie du Châtelet. December 17, 1706 - September 10, 1749. Written by Sasha Mandic, Class of 1997 (Agnes Scott College) In a society where nobility disliked the notion of education for their daughters arose one of the great mathematicians of the eighteenth century, Frenchwoman, Emilie du Châtelet.
