Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings - Brossura

Du Châtelet, Emilie

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ISBN 10: 0226168077 ISBN 13: 9780226168074

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Riassunto

Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706&;49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton&;s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured.

In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet&;s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet&;s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography&;making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet&;s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture. 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Judith P. Zinsser is professor of history and an affiliate in the women&;s studies program at Miami University. She is the author of Emilie Du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment.

Isabelle Bour is professor of eighteenth-century English studies at the Sorbonne.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226168077
• ISBN 13: 9780226168074
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 452
• Redattore: Zinsser Judith P.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile