Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction.- Part 1: Du Ch telet Between Leibniz and Kant.- Chapter 1. milie Du Ch telet Between Leibniz and Kant. Eberhard and the Transcendental Turn (Ruth Hagengruber).- Chapter 2. The Significance of Du Ch telet's Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces (Katherine Dunlop).- Chapter 3. Du Ch telet's Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant (Clara Carus).- Chapter 4. The Reception of milie Du Ch telet in the German Enlightenment in the Light of the Controversy over Monads (Andrea Reichenberger).- Chapter 5. milie du Ch telet in the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel (Hanns-Peter Neumann).- Part 2: Methodical Questions: Du Ch telet Between Leibniz and Newton.- Chapter 6. Three French Newtonians and their Leibniz Background (Hartmut Hecht).- Chapter 7. Les corps agissent sur la lumi re." milie Du Ch telet's Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l'optique (Fritz Nagel).- Chapter 8. milie Du Ch telet's Epistemology of Hypotheses (Gianni Paganini).- Chapter 9. milie Du Ch telet's Institutions physiques considered as a philosophy of science based on the history of science (Dieter Suisky).- Chapter 10. Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World - milie Du Ch telet on Causation (Ansgar Lyssi).- Chapter 11. Du Ch telet on Newtonian Attraction (Marco Storni).- Part 3: Du Ch telet and Newton.- Chapter 12. Making Scientific Theories: milie Du Ch telet's Circle and the Newtonian "Revolution" (Robyn Arianrhod).- Chapter 13. milie Du Ch telet and Newton's Principia (Michel Toulmonde).- Chapter 14. Du Ch telet's Commentary on Newton's Principia: An Assessment (George Smith).- Part 4: Du Ch telet in Italy.- Chapter 15. milie Du Ch telet and Italy. The Italian translation of milie Du Ch telet's Institutions physiques in intellectual context (Sarah Hutton).- Chapter 16. Du Ch telet in Italy: Who was behind Du Ch telet's Italian Translation? (Romana Bassi).- Part 5: Du Ch telet in France.- Chapter 17. "Anonymity and Ambition" milie Du Ch telet's Dissertation du feu (1744) (Keiko Kawashima).- Chapter 18. "D'une marquise l'autre. Mme Du Ch telet et les Enretiens sur la pluralit des mondes de Fontenelle" (Christophe Martin).- Chapter 19. Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and milie Du Ch telet on Love (Gabor Boros).- Chapter 20. milie Du Ch telet and La Mettrie (Anne Thomson).- Chapter 21. Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis's Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic (Waltraud Ernst).- Chapter 22. The Influence of Epicurean thought on Mme Du Ch telet's Discours sur le Bonheur (Alexsandra Gierault).- Chapter 23. Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Ch telet's Challenge (Andreas Blank).- Chapter 24. Mme Du Ch telet, Clandestine Philosopher (Susan 24. Seguin).- Chapter 25. Mme Du Ch telet, a heterodox philosopher reads the Bible (Bertram Schwarzbach).- Part 6: Du Ch telet: Manuscript and Editing History.- Chapter 26. Les manuscrits d' milie Du Ch telet conserv s la Biblioth que nationale de Russie (Natalia Speranskaja).- Chapter 27. Printing Du Ch telet's Institutions de Physique: The Variant Texts (Ronald Smelzer).- List of abbreviations.