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505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 8:31 AM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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