Articles and Chapters

1. Janiak, A, Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity, in Early Modern Women on Metaphysics (January, 2018), pp. 49-71 [doi].
   (last updated on 2024/01/01)

   Abstract:
   When Émilie Du Châtelet published her magnum opus, Institutions de physique, in 1740, it was quickly met with excited reactions from mathematicians and philosophers throughout the Continent.1 Within a few short years, it was read and discussed by philosophers like Kant and Wolff and by mathematicians like the Bernoullis, Euler and D’Alembert.