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What was Émilie du Châtelet's contribution to philosophy?
Historical evidence indicates that Du Châtelet's work had a very significant influence on the philosophical and scientific conversations of the 1730s and 1740s.
When did Émilie du Châtelet start writing about philosophy?
By the age of twelve Émilie du Châtelet was fluent in Latin, Italian, Greek and German; she was later to publish translations into French of Greek and Latin plays and philosophy.
Can you tell me some things she wrote
Émilie du Châtelet wrote Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu, Institutions de physique, and Principes mathématiques de la philosophie.

Question: who did she look up to
Self-contained rewrite: who did she look up to