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Le Chateau de Luneville

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Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Le Chateau de Luneville
Phone:
+33 3 83 74 06 55

Hours:
Sunday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm
Monday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm
Tuesday10am - 12:30pm
Wednesday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm
Thursday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm
Friday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm
Saturday10am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 6pm


Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet was a French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s until her untimely death due to childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Principia containing basic laws of physics. The translation, published posthumously in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation today. Her commentary includes a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element. Her philosophical magnum opus, Institutions de Physique , or Foundations of Physics, circulated widely, generated heated debates, and was republished and translated into several other languages within two years of its original publication. She participated in the famous vis viva debate, concerning the best way to measure the force of a body and the best means of thinking about conservation principles. Posthumously, her ideas were heavily represented in the most famous text of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert, first published shortly after Du Châtelet's death. Numerous biographies, books and plays have been written about her life and work in the two centuries since her death. In the early 21st century, her life and ideas have generated renewed interest.
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