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Emilie translated Principia into French and corrected Newton’s E = mv to E = mv2.

http://www.sciencecontrol.com/voltaire-biography-1694-1778.html

Voltaire, one of her lovers, wrote to Frederick II of Prussia to say that du Châtelet was:

“…A great man whose only fault was that she was a woman".

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 –1749)

French mathematician, physicist and author during the. She translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.

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Willem s’Gravesande shared his results with Émilie du Châtelet, who subsequently corrected Newton’s formula E = mv to E = mv2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet

Willem s’Gravesande shared his results with Émilie du Châtelet, who subsequently corrected Newton’s formula E = mv to E = mv2. (Note that though we now add a factor of 1/2 to this formula to make it work with coherent systems of units, the formula as expressed is correct if you choose units to fit it.)

http://www.sciencecontrol.com/voltaire-biography-1694-1778.html

Voltaire, one of her lovers, wrote in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 –1749)

French mathematician, physicist and author during the. She translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.