Emilie du Châtelet
In Our Time: Science
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Did Edmund Halley's Comet Reappear Spot on Time?
She wrote that translation of newton, and it dissipate. No one knows what happened to it for the next ten or 15 years after she died. And then in 17 59, that one of the people who'd been her tutor, clero, worked out a losmor newtonian mathematics and calculated when halley's comet was going to come back. That was one of the clinching pieces of evidence that really vindicated isaac newton's theories. So there was a double event. There was a brand new translation of the principia in french and edmund Halley's comet reappeared spot on time. But unfortunately, the baby died, did her reputation disappear altogether
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