Introduction.- ¿Part 1: Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Kant.- Chapter 1. Émilie Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Kant. Eberhard and the Transcendental Turn (Ruth Hagengruber).- Chapter 2. The Significance of Du Châtelet's Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces (Katherine Dunlop).- Chapter 3. Du Châtelet's Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant (Clara Carus).- Chapter 4. The Reception of Émilie Du Châtelet in the German Enlightenment in the Light of the Controversy over Monads (Andrea Reichenberger).- Chapter 5. Émilie du Châtelet in the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel (Hanns-Peter Neumann).- Part 2:Methodical Questions: Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton.- Chapter 6. Three French Newtonians and their Leibniz Background (Hartmut Hecht).- Chapter 7. Les corps agissent sur la lumière." Émilie Du Châtelet's Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l'optique (Fritz Nagel).- Chapter 8. ÉmilieDu Châtelet's Epistemology of Hypotheses (Gianni Paganini).- Chapter 9. Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions physiques considered as a philosophy of science based on the history of science (Dieter Suisky).- Chapter 10. Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World - Émilie Du Châtelet on Causation (Ansgar Lyssi).- Chapter 11. Du Châtelet on Newtonian Attraction (Marco Storni).- Part 3: Du Châtelet and Newton.- Chapter 12. Making Scientific Theories: Émilie Du Châtelet's Circle and the Newtonian "Revolution" (Robyn Arianrhod).- Chapter 13. Émilie Du Châtelet and Newton's Principia (Michel Toulmonde).- Chapter 14. Du Châtelet's Commentary on Newton's Principia: An Assessment (George Smith).- Part 4: Du Châtelet in Italy.- Chapter 15. Émilie Du Châtelet and Italy. The Italian translation of Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions physiques in intellectual context (Sarah Hutton).- Chapter 16. Du Châtelet in Italy: Who was behind Du Châtelet's Italian Translation? (Romana Bassi).- Part 5: Du Châtelet in France.- Chapter 17. "Anonymity and Ambition": Émilie Du Châtelet's Dissertation du feu (1744) (Keiko Kawashima).- Chapter 18. "D'une marquise l'autre. Mme Du Châtelet et les Enretiens sur la pluralité des mondes de Fontenelle" (Christophe Martin).- Chapter 19. Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and Émilie Du Châtelet on Love (Gabor Boros).- Chapter 20. Émilie Du Châtelet and La Mettrie (Anne Thomson).- Chapter 21. Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis's Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic (Waltraud Ernst).- Chapter 22. The Influence of Epicurean thought on Mme Du Châtelet's Discours sur le Bonheur (Alexsandra Gierault).- Chapter 23. Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Châtelet's Challenge (Andreas Blank).- Chapter 24. Mme Du Châtelet, Clandestine Philosopher (Susan 24. Seguin).- Chapter 25. Mme Du Châtelet, a heterodox philosopher reads the Bible (Bertram Schwarzbach).- Part 6: Du Châtelet: Manuscript and Editing History.- Chapter 26. Les manuscrits d'Émilie Du Châtelet conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie (Natalia Speranskaja).- Chapter 27. Printing Du Châtelet's Institutions de Physique: The Variant Texts (Ronald Smelzer).- List of abbreviations.