#du-chatelet

▤ Reading group: Émilie du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics, the opening chapters

I work on Sor Juana and women in early modern philosophy, and I keep meeting Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) in footnotes as Voltaire's companion and as the translator of Newton's Principia into French. Both true, and both shrink her. Her own book,…