Translating Newton's \textit{PRINCIPIA}: The Marquise du Châtelet's revisions and additions for a French audience (Q2731649)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1626294
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1626294 |
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4 November 2001
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Newtonianism
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enlightenment
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feminist historiography
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Translating Newton's \textit{PRINCIPIA}: The Marquise du Châtelet's revisions and additions for a French audience (English)
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The paper is an appraisal of Emile du Châtelet's translation of Newton's \textit{Principia}, focused on Châtelet's role in the process of dissemination of Newtonianism on the European continent. According to the author, it was due to Châtelet's careful and methodological translation, and to her extensive commentary on Newton's world system that Newton's ideas gained universal acceptance from Europe's intellectual public in the eighteenth century, when French had the same importance as a universal language as English has today.
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