Passionate minds : the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Châtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world /
"It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Chatelet, a beguiling - and married - aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty...
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| Main Author: |
Bodanis, David |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Crown Publishers,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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