Translating Newton's \textit{PRINCIPIA}: The Marquise du Châtelet's revisions and additions for a French audience
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 0978.01023
author: Judith P. Zinsser
published in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
publication date: 2001-11-04T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A50
zbMATH DE Number: 1626294
zbMATH Keywords: Newtonianism
zbMATH Keywords: enlightenment
zbMATH Keywords: feminist historiography
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: rsnr.2001.0140
OpenAlex ID: W2130134758
DOI: 10.1098/RSNR.2001.0140
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title: Translating Newton's \textit{PRINCIPIA}: The Marquise du Châtelet's revisions and additions for a French audience
review text: 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.
reviewed by: Andreas Kleinert
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1626294