Western Civilization II / Unit 6 WC2 0511 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Émilie du Châtelet: Newton in French
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The idea
Émilie du Châtelet, who died in seventeen forty-nine, wrote on physics, mathematics, the Bible and happiness, and made the annotated French translation of the Principia that carried Newton into the Enlightenment. Accepted in the republic of science, she was Voltaire's companion.
In practice
The anchor's link between Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.
Where people slip
The witness names her a leader; the translation is the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
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