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Émilie du Châtelet, 18th century French mathematician, physicist, and author. Artist: Unknown

Émilie du Châtelet, 18th century French mathematician, physicist, and author. Artist: Unknown

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Émilie du Châtelet, 18th century French mathematician, physicist, and author. A prominent figure of the Enlightenment, Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) produced a translation of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica that is still the standard version in French. Voltaire, who was one of her lovers, declared that du Châtelet was a great man whose only fault was being a woman.

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