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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French mathematicians and natural philosophers of the 18th Century, celebrated across Europe. Emilie du Ch\\xe2telet, 1706-49, created a translation of Newton\\u2019s Principia from Latin into French that helped spread the light of mathematics on the emerging science, and her own book Institutions de Physique, with its lessons on physics, was welcomed as profound. She had the privileges of wealth and aristocracy, yet had to fight to be taken seriously as an intellectual in a world of ideas that was almost exclusively male.\\n \\nWith

Patricia Fara\\nEmeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

David Wootton\\nAnniversary Professor of History at the University of York

And

Judith Zinsser\\nProfessor Emerita of History at Miami University of Ohio and biographer of Emilie du Ch\\xe2telet.

Producer: Simon Tillotson