{"id":77237,"date":"2025-02-07T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clavreuil-wordpress.logiciel-arteo.fr\/du-chatelet-emilie-institutions-de-physique-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:10:45","slug":"du-chatelet-emilie-institutions-de-physique-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/clavreuil-wordpress.logiciel-arteo.fr\/en\/du-chatelet-emilie-institutions-de-physique-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DU CH\u00c2TELET \u00c9milie Institutions de physique."},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbier, II, 928-d ; Caillet, I, 3307; Poggendorff, I, 424 ; Qu\u00e9rard, II, 621 ; Mireille Touzery, \u00ab \u00c9milie Du Ch\u00e2telet, un passeur scientifique au XVIIIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle \u00bb, La revue pour l\u2019histoire du CNRS, 21 | 2008.<\/i><\/p>\n

First edition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Institutions de Physique<\/i> is an innovative work in which \u00c9milie du Ch\u00e2telet combines the scientific theories of Newton and the metaphysics of Leibniz. In this it reflects \u00c9milie du Ch\u00e2telet’s varied education.<\/p>\n

She first learned about Newtonism from Voltaire, and their work together helped to spread Newton’s theories in France. The Marquise’s Ch\u00e2teau de Cirey included a physics laboratory, the first private one in Europe.<\/p>\n

Although she was so convinced of Newton’s theories that she became a proponent of them, she remained critical and curious. She studied metaphysics with Samuel Koenig. Koenig, a pupil of Jean Bernoulli, introduced her to Leibniz.<\/p>\n

Armed with this dual education, she wrote her Institutions de physique<\/i> in 1740 which remains \u00ab jusqu\u2019\u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui une des plus nettes expositions de la doctrine de Leibniz en fran\u00e7ais \u00bb (Touzery).<\/p>\n

The book quickly became a resounding critical success. Koenig then tried to pass himself off as the author, leaving Madame du Ch\u00e2telet as mere redactor. The scientist then called on Maupertuis to set the record straight, as it was he who had recommended her to Koenig.<\/p>\n

Voltaire supported her and wrote \u00ab Il a paru au commencement de cette ann\u00e9e un ouvrage qui ferait honneur \u00e0 notre si\u00e8cle \u00bb (Exposition du livre des Institutions Physiques <\/i>dans laquelle on examine les id\u00e9es de Leibnitz, 1740)<\/p>\n

In 1742, the Institutions de physique<\/i> was republished. \u00c9milie du Ch\u00e2telet included new answers to the various quarrels that the book had provoked with Mairan. The work was also translated into German and Italian.<\/p>\n

Provenance<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean Bernoulli II (1710-1790), bookplate.<\/p>\n

This is an important scientific provenance, as it highlights the complexity of the relationships between different eighteenth-century scientists.<\/p>\n

In September 1739, Madame du Ch\u00e2telet asked Maupertuis: \u00ab Avez-vous eu la bont\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9crire \u00e0 M. Bernoulli ? Cela me devient plus n\u00e9cessaire que jamais ; car je d\u00e9sesp\u00e8re de garder Koenig \u00bb. This was Bernoulli II. Koning’s teaching no longer suited her; their personalities were too far apart. So she asked for another tutor, and who better than the son of the scientist she was defending.<\/p>\n

Although Bernoulli never became the Marquise’s teacher, he nevertheless kept up a lively correspondence with her, and she welcomed him to Cirey in 1739.<\/p>\n

In particular, she asked him to send her her father’s manuscript, the Comercium Epistolicum.<\/p>\n

The Marquise then wrote a long letter to Bernoulli on 30 June 1740, in which she reviewed in detail the history of the writing of the Institutions in order to refute all the accusations made by Koenig:<\/p>\n

\u00ab Je suis trop heureuse Monsieur que les indiscr\u00e9tions de Koenig m’ayent laiss\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s de vous le m\u00e9rite de la confiance. [\u2026] Le d\u00e9tail de ses proc\u00e9d\u00e9s avec moi sont un tissu de bassesses qu’il auroit \u00e9t\u00e9 ais\u00e9 d’oublier avec lui, mais il y a joint une perfidie affreuse.<\/p>\n

J’avois compos\u00e9 dans mon loisir de Cirey des El\u00e9mens de phisique<\/i> que je destinois pour mon fils et qu’une femme de mes amies qui \u00e9tois \u00e0 Cirey me persuada de faire imprimer [\u2026].<\/p>\n

Elle fit un voyage Expr\u00e8s \u00e0 Paris pour le porter et il fut approuv\u00e9 par mr<\/sup> Pitot en 1738, c’est \u00e0 dire environ un an avant que vous me fissi\u00e9s l’honneur de venir \u00e0 Cirey avec mr<\/sup> de Maupertuis et par cons\u00e9quent un an avant que je conusse Koenig.<\/p>\n

Ce livre s’imprima tr\u00e8s lentement parce que mon libraire qui ne me connoissoit point [\u2026]<\/p>\n

Enfin en vivant avec Mr de Koenig je parlois souvent de m\u00e9taphisique avec lui, dans le voyage surtout en venant icy elle faisoit le sujet de nos Entretiens. Il me parla de celle de Leibnitz et me fit naitre l’envie de la connoitre.  [\u2026] J’avois commenc\u00e9 mon ouvrage par quelques chapitres de m\u00e9taphisique, j’eus envie d’y donner une id\u00e9e de celle de Leibnitz qui je vous l\u2019avoue me plut infiniment. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

Le livre \u00e9toit plus [qu\u2019]\u00e0 moiti\u00e9 imprim\u00e9, l’engageai le libraire \u00e0 recommencer les feuilles o\u00f9 je voulois mettre ma nouvelles m\u00e9taphisique, et \u00e0 faire quelques cartons, et je me mis \u00e0 travailler. [\u2026]. Ainsi je me voyois \u00e0 la veille de jouir du plaisir de l’incognito mais je ne fus pas plut\u00f4t partie que Mr de Koenig le dit \u00e0 tout le monde ajoutant que j’avois fait un livre qui ne valoit rien, qu’il m’en avoit fait un autre et que je ne l’avois pas suffisamment pay\u00e9 de sa peine. Jug\u00e9s du bruit que cela fit, cela me revint de toutes parts, et je vous avoue que je fus outr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Je balan\u00e7ai longtems si je retirerois mon livre. Enfin je pris le parti de le laisser paroitre parce qu’apr\u00e8s le bruit que cela avoit fait il y avoit encore plus d’inconv\u00e9nient \u00e0 le retirer, et que de plus cela n’\u00e9toit gu\u00e8res possible, \u00e9tant presque fini d’imprimer. Cependant je l’ay suspendu tant que j’ay pu, et enfin il va paroitre, et tout le monde sait qu’il est de moi.<\/p>\n

[\u2026]Mr de Koenig a escrit depuis peu une lettre \u00e0 Mr de V. qui sufiroit pour le faire mettre aux petites maisons. Il lui fait entr’autres entendre qu’il escrira contre mon livre, mais il m’a fait tout le mal qu’il me peut faire et je ne lui r\u00e9pondrai que par le silence et le m\u00e9pris. Voil\u00e0 Monsieur le mot de l’\u00e9nigme.<\/p>\n

Je vous enverrai l\u2019ouvrage d\u00e8s qu’il paroitra, non pas qu’il soit digne de vous, mais parce que j’esp\u00e8re que par amiti\u00e9 pour moi vous vous y int\u00e9resser\u00e9s \u00bb.<\/p>\n

It is possible that our copy is the one discussed in the letter, making it a presentation copy.<\/p>\n

Corners rubbed, joint of first cover split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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