Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment by David Bodanis

Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment

David Bodanis

384 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced

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It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, 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 a...

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