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  1. Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] ·

    Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar day 17 - Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), a natural philosopher, #mathematician and #physicist, shown here in my #linocut portrait with #diagrams from her ‘Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle’, a two-volume translation and commentary of Newton’s ‘Principia’, published in 1759 in French in Paris.⠀
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    #printmaking #histsci #WomenInSTEM #duChâtelet #SciArt #mathematics #mastoArt

    #artadventcalendar #mathematician #physicist #linocut #diagrams #printmaking
  2. Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] ·

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    @philosophy @philosophie

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics
    #space
    #EarlyModernPhilosophy

    wrt the hiatus in
    understanding the objectivity of physical space

    by

    #Descartes
    #Newton

    on one side,

    on the other - in a way all - say of

    #Spinoza
    #Leibniz
    #duChatelet
    #Kant

    there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.

    philarchive.org/rec/
    WELINA-2

    #philosophyofphysics #space #earlymodernphilosophy #descartes #newton #spinoza