Her work was a translation of Principia into French ... in a society which excluded her from many of the academic resources that male translators would have had access to at the time, completed under a grueling schedule, with annotations, including her own original contribution in extending Newtonian mechanics with a law of overall conservation of energy. Her work went on to be one of the foundational texts of the French Enlightenment.
I knew nothing of her until a few minutes ago and it's really a shame that one of the first comments in this thread isn't going into more detail about her contributions but rather incuriously dismisses her.
RE dismissal: if you politicize everything, be ready for everyone to answer according to their politics.
Using hyperbolic click bait titles is a political statement, it's basically a Tweet as a HN submission. If you want to be less generous: it's trolling, and if done as a comment, it would get moderated and the account banned if it's a pattern.
You could link an article about Lincoln titled "Abraham Lincoln's struggle with X" or "The Republican that fought the Democrats to end SLAVERY and how he overcame his greatest challenge". Guess what title will lead to comments on the topic and which will result in a political shouting match.
I knew nothing of her until a few minutes ago and it's really a shame that one of the first comments in this thread isn't going into more detail about her contributions but rather incuriously dismisses her.