While historically she was merely remembered as Voltaire’s lover, she in fact was not only responsible for all his ideas about #physics but was the first to postulate the conservation of total energy (which includes kinetic and other forms of energy combined). Further, she found the relationship between kinetic energy, mass and velocity of an object. She combined Newton’s text with Leibniz’ more elegant formulation of calculus, pushing physics forward.⠀

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