GREAT MINDS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Men and women who helped contribute to the fields of science, philosophy, politics and more

Émilie du Châtelet French, 1706-49 Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, was one of the great intellectuals of her era as well as the intellectual and romantic partner of Voltaire, among other lovers. Her work was primarily focused in mathematics and physics where she wrote a number of treatises, including one on the nature of fire that competed against Voltaire’s in a competition held by the Academy of Sciences. The last years of her life were spent working on a translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, published posthumously with a foreword by Voltaire in 1756. ADAM SMITH SCOTTISH, 1723-90 Working as a political, economic and social thinker, Adam Smith’s most famous contribution to the world of modern thought was An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the…

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