The title page reads: PRINCIPES MATHÉMATIQUES DE LA PHILOSOPHIE NATURELLE, Par feue Madame la Marquise DU CHASTELLET.
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A belated happy birthday to Émilie du Châtelet, who was born on December 17, 1706.
She hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined Newton, Leibniz, and her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique.”
A thread from last year:
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