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Emilie du Châtelet
In Our Time: Science
Did You Know That Emily De Chatele Was a Woman?
Voltaire once said that mc minerva ted and i wrote, so that was a huge tribute to emily de chatele as minerva, the goddess of wisdom. And he was enormously impressed by her intellectual abilities. When she became pregnant by another man, not voltaire, but a third man called saint lamb er, he suggested, will bring your husband back. Convince your husband that it's the husband's baby and everything will be fine. She worked extremely hard. As she said, she put her fingers into ice cold water in the middle of the night to keep herself awake. One of the things that i admire about her most is she said that the most important thing
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