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Émilie du Châtelet

  1. Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution Robyn Arianrhod ““One must know what one wants to be. In the latter endeavors irresolution produces false steps, and in the life of the mind confused...

    Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

    Robyn Arianrhod

    “One must know what one wants to be. In the latter endeavors irresolution produces false steps, and in the life of the mind confused ideas.”

    Trailblazing 18th-century mathematician, who popularized Newton and paved the way for women in science, on gender and the nature of genius: