Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Marquise du C Philosophers

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont, 1706-1749. French Enlightenment translator of philosophical and scientific works, including Newton's Principia. She was a friend and correspondent of Voltaire. Her own thinking was strongly influenced by Leibniz, on whose physics her chief original book was based. She is a pivotal figure in the history of mathematics and of early modern philosophy.

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• - Biographical article by Laurie Kiss.
  
• - 2001 paper by Judith P. Zinsser. Full text is available in PDF format.
  
• - Biography, timeline, bibliography and portrait, from Great Voyages.
  
• - Biography and portraits of du Châtelet, and the story of her affair with Voltaire.
  
• - Brief biography with bibliography, considering this French thinker's background and scientific legacy.
  
  

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