[FRIAM] from George with love

[Nicholas Thompson]

Today George introduced me to  *• Émilie du Châtelet (1740):*

*In her translation/commentary on Newton, she clarified and defended
Leibniz’s vis viva over Newtonian momentum. Still no “potential energy” in
the modern sense, but momentum vs. velocity-squared debates were live.*

I thought I would pass her along to you in case you had never met her.

Nick.


  Nick

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
nthompson at clarku.edu
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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