She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman. — Voltaire (portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, image via Getty Images) With her lover Voltaire (yes, *that* Voltaire), Émilie founded a research retreat in eastern France to further explore her scientific gifts and to nurture those of other fledgling thinkers. The little chateau was like an incubator for Enlightenment ideas, welcoming visitors from all over Europe. There, she hand-annotated Isaac Newton's newly-published laws of physics. She included a few corrections and elaborations of her own: namely, the as-yet-undiscovered concepts of energy, light and radiation.
A Woman to Know: Emilie du Châtelet
A Woman to Know: Emilie du Châtelet
A Woman to Know: Emilie du Châtelet
She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman. — Voltaire (portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, image via Getty Images) With her lover Voltaire (yes, *that* Voltaire), Émilie founded a research retreat in eastern France to further explore her scientific gifts and to nurture those of other fledgling thinkers. The little chateau was like an incubator for Enlightenment ideas, welcoming visitors from all over Europe. There, she hand-annotated Isaac Newton's newly-published laws of physics. She included a few corrections and elaborations of her own: namely, the as-yet-undiscovered concepts of energy, light and radiation.