“Emilie du Châtelet: The Woman Science Forgot”

“Emilie du Châtelet: The Woman Science Forgot” October 10, 2015

 

Mathematician and mistress
Portrait of Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Wikimedia CC Public Domain

 

You may well be familiar with her, but I wasn’t:

 

https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/emilie-du-chatelet-woman-science-forgot

 

I can easily imagine a Hollywood movie made about her, someday.  After all, her story contains two of the features that Hollywood values most, sex and female beauty, and it readily lends itself to the film industry’s overwhelming ideological agenda.

 

As a title, how about A Beautiful Mind?

 

 


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