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Emilie du Châtelet
In Our Time: Science
The Importance of a Hypothesis in Modern Physics
In her essay on happiness, er emily says she's against ambition. She wants to be somebody who's recognized for her intellectual capacity and not for, not for her sex. At the end of her life, when she is pregnant, she believes that there's a pro prospect that she may die in pregnancy,. If this happens, she packs up her newton manuscript and her essay on Happiness, and she sends them off to the royal library so that they will be held there. They'll be held there, and they can then be preserved for posterity. And i think that's a very good example of how she had a hypothesis and she tested it using an experiment - quite a straightforward
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