Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation of Isaac Newton's monumental work Principia Mathematica, with her own commentary; it is still considered the standard translation. Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
she probably thought something similar of him, but would have been far too polite to record it for posterity. keep to the Fen Causeway
