Autograph letter : place not specified, to Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau, marquise de Boufflers, [1749] May 3.

Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica containing basic laws of physics. The translation, published posthumously in 1756, is still considered the standard French translation....

Morrison, Alfred, 1821-1897

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Boufflers, Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau, marquise de, 1711-1786,

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French noblewoman, friend of Voltaire, mother of the poet Stanislas de Boufflers. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1755 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526664 ...