Emilie du Châtelet

In Our Time: Science

BBC

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French mathematicians and natural philosophers of the 18th Century, celebrated across Europe. Emilie du Châtelet, 1706-49, created a translation of Newton’s Principia from Latin into French that helped spread the light of mathematics on the emerging science, and her own book Institutions de Physique, with its lessons on physics, was welcomed as profound. She had the privileges of wealth and aristocracy, yet had to fight to be taken seriously as an intellectual in a world of ideas that was almost exclusively male. With Patricia Fara Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge David Wootton Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York And Judith Zinsser Professor Emerita of History at Miami University of Ohio and biographer of Emilie du Châtelet. Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:52.1	Hello, Emily Dushattale, 1706 to 1749, was an outstanding French mathematician
0:59.4	and natural philosopher, celebrated across Europe.
1:03.4	Her translation of Newton's Spring Kippia Mathematica helped spread the light of mathematics
1:08.0	on the emerging science and her own book on the Lessons of Physics was welcomed as profound.
1:14.6	And while she had the privilege of wealth and aristocracy, she had to fight to be taken
1:18.2	seriously as an intellectual in a world of ideas that was almost exclusively male.
1:23.9	In me to discuss Emily Dushattale are Patricia Farah, emeritus fellow of Clark College
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