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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This story of two remarkable women, Emilie du Chatelet and Mary Somerville, whose lives were drawn together by their irresistible desire for mathematical knowledge, reveals the intimate links between the Newtonian revolution and the origins of intellectual and political liberty. |
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1 Madame Newton du Châtelet 6 -- 2 Creating the theory of gravity: the Newtonian controversy 12 -- 3 Learning mathematics and fighting for freedom 20 -- 4 Émilie and Voltaire's Academy of Free Thought 37 -- 5 Testing Newton: the 'New Argonauts' 56 -- 6 Danger in Newton: life, love and politics 67 -- 7 Nature of light: Émilie takes on Newton 80 -- 8 Searching for 'energy': Émilie discovers Leibniz 97 -- 9 Mathematics and free will 114 -- 10 Re-emergence of Madame Newton du Châtelet 132 -- 11 Love letters to Saint-Lambert 147 -- 12 Mourning Émilie 155 -- 13 Mary Fairfax Somerville 161 -- 14 Long road to fame 175 -- 15 Mechanism of the Heavens 197 -- 16 Mary's second book: popular science in the nineteenth century 214 -- 17 Finding light waves: the 'Newtonian Revolution' comes of age 227 -- 18 Mary Somerville: a fortunate life 244. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
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Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749. |
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Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872.
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Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872. |
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Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil 1706-1749. |
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Somerville, Mary 1780-1872. |
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Women scientists -- France -- Biography.
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Women scientists. |
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France. |
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Biographies.
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Women scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain. |
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Scientists -- France -- Biography.
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Scientists. |
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Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women -- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Women. |
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Intellectual life. |
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18th century |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arianrhod, Robyn. Seduced by logic 9780199931613 (DLC) 2012006294 (OCoLC)781848438 |
| ISBN |
9780199931620 (electronic book) |
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0199931623 (electronic book) |
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9780199931613 |
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0199931615 |
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