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Émilie du Châtelet — Mathematician and physicist, translator of Newton, 1706–1749
The daughter of the baron de Breteuil, introducer of ambassadors, educated like her brothers, married in 1725 to the marquis du Châtelet, she lived with Voltaire from 1733, mostly at Cirey, where she set up a physics cabinet. She published a memoir on fire in 1737, Institutions de physique in 1740, defended Leibniz’s “vis viva”, and gave her last four years to translating and commenting on Newton’s Principia. She died a few days after giving birth; her translation appeared complete in 1759, ten years later, through Clairaut’s care. (Editorial synthesis)
Émilie du Châtelet was born on 17 December 1706. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Émilie du Châtelet was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Émilie du Châtelet died on 10 September 1749. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Émilie du Châtelet died in Lunéville. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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