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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont, 1706-1749. French Enlightenment translator of philosophical and scientific works, including Newton's Principia. She was a friend and correspondent of Voltaire. Her own thinking was strongly influenced by Leibniz, on whose physics her chief original book was based. She is a pivotal figure in the history of mathematics and of early modern philosophy.

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Gabrielle Émilie, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont Biography, timeline, bibliography and portrait, from Great Voyages. oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/chatelet.html

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil du Chatelet and Voltaire Biography and portraits of du Châtelet, and the story of her affair with Voltaire. www.visitvoltaire.com/emilie_du_chatelet_bio.htm

Emilie du Chatelet Biographical essay by Sasha Mandic. www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/chatelet.htm

Emilie du Chatelet Brief biography with bibliography, considering this French thinker's background and scientific legacy. www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/EMILIE.HTM

Emilie, Marquise du Châtelet Biographical article by Laurie Kiss. www.math.wichita.edu/history/women/chatelet.html

Translating Newton's Principia: The Marquise du Châtelet's Revisions and Additions for a French Audience 2001 paper by Judith P. Zinsser. Full text is available in PDF format. www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/../../..