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Early modern · 1706–1749

Who influenced Émilie du Châtelet?

Influences

Mathematician-philosopher who translated Newton and fought for women's education.

Émilie du Châtelet was influenced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Émilie du Châtelet?

Émilie du Châtelet was a French mathematician and physicist. Her main work, Foundations of Physics (1740), covers the principles of knowledge, God, space, time, matter and the forces of nature, with several chapters on Newton's theory of gravity, and it was translated into German and Italian in 1743.

She took part in the vis viva debate over how to measure the force of a moving body. Her French translation of Newton's Principia, with her commentary, appeared after her death in 1756 and is still the standard French version. She was also Voltaire's intellectual partner and lover.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Émilie du Châtelet?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Émilie du Châtelet

The longest documented line of influence ending at Émilie du Châtelet runs 18 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Émilie du Châtelet

Two steps away from Émilie du Châtelet

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Émilie du Châtelet

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Émilie du Châtelet, with no direct line between them.

Émilie du Châtelet by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
74
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
56 — #24 of 36 among early modern philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Émilie du Châtelet

Who influenced Émilie du Châtelet?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Who did Émilie du Châtelet influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Émilie du Châtelet.
When did Émilie du Châtelet live?
1706–1749. The map files Émilie du Châtelet under the early modern period.
How rare is the Émilie du Châtelet card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Émilie du Châtelet in 56 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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