Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Bonus <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtAdventCalendar</span></a> day 17 Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), a natural philosopher, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a>, shown here in my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portrait with <a href="https://spore.social/tags/diagrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diagrams</span></a> from her ‘Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle’, a two-volume translation and commentary of Newton’s ‘Principia’, published in 1759 in French in Paris.🧵<br>⠀<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/duCh%C3%A2telet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duChâtelet</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>