Stan, Marius (Author)
Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Editor)
Manning, Gideon (Editor)
Springer International Publishing
Pages: 277-297
Publication date: 2023
Language: English
Much scholarship has claimed the physics of Emilie du Châtelet’s treatise, Institutions de physique, is Newtonian. I argue against that idea. To do so, I distinguish three strands of meaning for the category ‘Newtonian science,’ and I examine her book against them. I conclude that her physics is not Newtonian in any useful or informative sense. To capture what is specific about it, we need better interpretive categories.
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