Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
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She translated Newton's Principia into French — the version still in use — and wrote a physics treatise that set the Enlightenment arguing. Voltaire's lover, yes, but more durably: a mathematician who made conservation of energy legible to a continent.
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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born in Paris on 17 December 1706 into minor nobility. Her breakthrough came in 1740 with Institutions de Physique, a philosophical work spanning the principles of knowledge, God, space, time, matter, and Newtonian gravity — revised in 1742, it was translated into German and Italian within a year and ignited heated debate across Europe. She threw herself into the vis viva controversy, the struggle to define force and conservation, and her arguments earned prominent placement in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie after her death. She spent years…
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