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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.

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joedrawing3 @joedrawing3.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wow. STEM before it was STEM.

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RuckSac Adventures @rucksac.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

They thought she was a witch and burned her didn’t they. Wait, that would be the Republican Party September 2025.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thank you, very much, truly a remarkable woman in a remarkable time. ♥️

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kC 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @evilpeony.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I miss this kind of talk

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Henry Heiberg Andersen🇺🇳🇪🇺🇳🇴🇵🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🐈🐕 🇩🇰🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪 @theshortviking68.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So many unsung female geniuses.

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spunkloaf @spunkloaf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ha. Nerd!

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aquarius-the-cat.bsky.social @aquarius-the-cat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

She deserves her credit just as Newton and Leibniz does

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jipplestheclown.bsky.social @jipplestheclown.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Very interesting

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No Room for Gloom @noroomforgloom.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thank you for sharing this! It’s awful that I had never heard of her before but I’m definitely going to try to find some books about her.

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Mountainflash @mountainflash.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Yes, women were up to 'good trouble' even in those days

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KettleCreekClem @kettlecreekerclem.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Great thread!

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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙 @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

And which man took credit?

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flyfella.bsky.social @flyfella.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

But she gets no credit because…?

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 17/12/2024

📌

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Virgil Kay @virgilkay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

And she did all of that THE DAY SHE WAS BORN? TODAY!?

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Michael Hindley @hindleylancs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Shared a long time creative and emotional relationship with Voltaire.

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ford427stroker.bsky.social @ford427stroker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This post was so scientific, it made me wish I graduated from 9th grade..but alas..the need to eat made me go out and work..

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Robin OG ANTIFASCIST! @rokkinrobin55.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

That's right, the women are smarter!

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alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social @alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Imagine the ideas that would have been shared if women were not pushed down This woman was of a class that allowed her to think and experiment Most women had to work at some level Misogyny is why that happens and why Kamala Harris lost the election

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Thomas Paine Writes Again @physicshappens.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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Ozonejokes @ozonejokes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

If today's troglodytes had their way she would have been barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen and illiterate.

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Ryssa @guttersnipe1071.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

That’s the look of a woman who’s tired of being overshadowed by the men in her field.

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Tony Ewing @tewing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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DrJT4Real @drjt4real.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wow, I didn’t know! #Women are so behind the scenes, everywhere.

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umichelo.bsky.social @umichelo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

C'était une femme exceptionnelle!👩‍🎓

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Jack Lewis @lfjackl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Was in a play about her by Lauren Gunderson a few years ago.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 24/12/2024

Heard a fun discussion of her work: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Emilie du Châtelet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@randomcoolzip.bsky.social

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Born Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, part of the French aristocracy, she was fascinated by astronomy, math, and physics. Her mother found her interests inappropriate but her father supported them. He invited many well-known scientists to their home. (2/n)

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Thomas Nuckolls @diracheisenberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My wife sang their master recital recently, and sang several pieces from Saariahos Émilie suite, which discusses her life and death. Absolutely riveting music with a haunting atonality! It was so nice seeing my world portrayed through my wife’s, and to learn about this unsung hero of physics.

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hsapi.bsky.social @hsapi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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MalEmet @malemet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm deeply impressed because I can't even understand the paragraph. It's amazing to hear of such gifted people, really enjoy it so thanks for the post 😊👍

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Charles Pidgeon @charlespidgeona.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Such a remarkable person! If anyone wants to know more about Émilie du Châtelet, I really recommend Robyn Arianrhod’s book "Seduced by Logic” (OUP, 2012). Very compelling while also rigorous, and filled with delightful anecdotes about Voltaire and Émilie writing and performing plays in their garden!

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Robyn Arianrhod’s Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution. The cover is parchment coloured with a geometric design of circles and intersecting lines. Small 18th-century oil portraiture cameos of Émilie and Mary frame the geometric design.

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rosy573.bsky.social @rosy573.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

She was also the longtime lover and companion of the great French Enlightenment author and playwright Voltaire.

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rosy573.bsky.social @rosy573.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

She was also the lover and longtime companion of Voltaire.

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Andee Harry @andeeharry1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

interesting, thanks for sharing

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