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Arianrhod, Robyn. 2012. Seduced by Logic. Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

Brading, Katherine. 2019. Émilie Du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science. New York: Routledge.

Brunet, Pierre. 1931. L’introduction des Théories de Newton en France au XVIII Siècle. Paris: A. Blanchard.

Cohen, I. Bernard. 1968. “The French Translation of Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1756, 1759.” Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 84–85: 260–290.

Detlefsen, K. 2022. “The Rise of a Public Science? Women and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period,” in D. Miller and J. Jalobeanu (eds.) The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, 128-146. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Hagengruber, Ruth, Edith. ed. 2012.  Émilie Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton. Dordrecht: Springer.

Hagengruber, Ruth, Edith. ed. 2022.  Époque Émilienne: Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706–1749). (Vol. 11). Springer Nature. 

Gandt, François de, ed. 2001. Cirey dans la Vie Intellectuel: La Réception de Newton en France. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2001: 11. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.

Janik, L.G. 1982. “Searching for the Metaphysics of Science: the Structure and Composition of Mme. Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique, 1737-1740.” Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century 201: 85-113.

Toulmonde, Michel. 2015. Isaac Newton et Émilie Du Châtelet, Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle. La traduction française des Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, édition critique du manuscrit. Ferney-Voltaire, Centre international d’étude du xviiie siècle.


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