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http://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/ %C3%89milie _du_Ch%C3 %A2telet Emilie translated Principia into French and corrected Newton’s E = mv to E = mv 2.
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http://www.scienc econtrol.com/volt aire-biography- 1694-1778.html Voltaire, one of her lovers, wrote to Frederick II of Prussia to say that du Châtelet was: “…A great man whose only fault was that she was a woman".
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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 –1749) French mathematician, physicist and author during the. She translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.
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http://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/ %C3%89milie _du_Ch%C3 %A2telet Willem s’Gravesande shared his results with Émilie du Châtelet, who subsequently corrected Newton’s formula E = mv to E = mv 2. Émilie du Châtelet
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http://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/ %C3%89milie _du_Ch%C3 %A2telet Willem s’Gravesande shared his results with Émilie du Châtelet, who subsequently corrected Newton’s formula E = mv to E = mv 2. (Note that though we now add a factor of 1/2 to this formula to make it work with coherent systems of units, the formula as expressed is correct if you choose units to fit it.)Émilie du Châtelet
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http://www.sciencecontrol.com/voltaire-biography-1694-1778.html Voltaire, one of her lovers, wrote in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 –1749) French mathematician, physicist and author during the. She translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.
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