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Biography of Gabrielle-Emilie Chatelet, Marquise du
Name: Gabrielle-Emilie Chatelet, Marquise du
Birth Date: December 17, 1706
Death Date: 1749
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Female
Occupations: physicist, chemist, translator
Gabrielle-Emilie Chatelet, Marquise du
Gabrielle-Emilie Chatelet (1706-1749) played a major role in the scientific revolution of the eighteenth century. By popularizing the theories of Isaac Newton she brought them more widespread acceptance in Europe, where most people still followed the ideas of Rene Descartes. Chatelet's scientific contribution has been largely overshadowed by her relationship with the philosopher Voltaire.Born Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil in Paris on December 17, 1706 into an aristocratic family, she received an exceptional education at home, which included scientific, musical, and literary studies. In 1725, she married the marquis du Chatelet, who was also the count of Lomont. It was a marriage of convenience, but she nevertheless had three children with him. After spending some years with her husband, whose political and military career kept him away from Paris, the marquise du Chatelet returned to the capital in 1730.Initially leading a busy social life, Chatelet became the lover of the philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the project. Despite many obstacles, which included a busy social life and an unwanted pregnancy at the age of 42, Chatelet finished her translation. On September 4, 1749, she gave birth to a daughter, and died of puerperal fever shortly thereafter. Her translation of Newton's work remains one of the monuments of French scientific scholarship. Further Reading Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Beacon Press, 1986.Copleston, Frederick. Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Leibniz. Vol. 4: A History of Philosophy. Image Books, 1960.Klens, Ulrike. Mathematikerinnen im 18. Jahrhundert: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Gabrielle-Emilie du Chatelet, Sophie Germain. Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994.Mitford, Nancy. Voltaire in Love. Greenwood Press, 1957.Olsen, Lynn M. Women in Mathematics. MIT Press, 1974.Smelding, Anda von. Die gottliche Emilie. Schlieffen Verlag, 1933.Vaillot, Rene. Madame du Chatelet. Albin Michel, 1978.Wolf, A. A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. 2d ed. George Allen and Unwin, 1952.
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