Emilie du Chatelet

In this regard, analogically, Emilie du Chatelet mistriss of Voltaire is a personal hero of mine.

Hard-core or spouse-corps Sarah Werning 2007

One could be forgiven for thinking an 18th Century adventurer would be utterly hopeless around new technology, but if you remember my century gave you the natural philosophers and encyclopaediasts, Denis Diderot, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Rene Descartes, not to mention Emilie du Chatelet, Caroline Herschel, and the Palatine Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, then you might grudgingly agree we rationalists have never be slow to advance new ideas even if we may be long-winded about doing so.

Archive 2008-11-01 Young Geoffrion 2008

One could be forgiven for thinking an 18th Century adventurer would be utterly hopeless around new technology, but if you remember my century gave you the natural philosophers and encyclopaediasts, Denis Diderot, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Rene Descartes, not to mention Emilie du Chatelet, Caroline Herschel, and the Palatine Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, then you might grudgingly agree we rationalists have never be slow to advance new ideas even if we may be long-winded about doing so.

Sapere aude! Young Geoffrion 2008

I’m talking Emilie du Chatelet, who makes you look pathetic.

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