Tag: Essai sur l’Optique

Behind the Scenes: Damla Ozdemir

Posted Meredith GrahamPosted in Behind the Scenes

Damla Ozdemir’s post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Roy Auh: How and when did you learn about Project Vox? Damla Ozdemir: Around my junior year of high school, I was reading a book about Voltaire because I was interested in physics, philosophy, and history, and found information about Émilie Du Châtelet. I became […]

Announcement: A Translation of Du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’Optique is Now Available on Project Vox

Posted Meredith GrahamPosted in Announcement

Émilie Du Châtelet worked on various scientific topics during the late 1730s, and the Essai sur l’Optique, or “essay on optics,” comes from that period. It shares much in common with her essay on the nature and propagation of fire, and serves as an important counterpoint to some aspects of her major later work, the […]