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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@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.

https://philarchive.org/rec/
WELINA-2

For #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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