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Rent Passionate Minds: Emilie Du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: Oct 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 384
Synopsis
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châ telet, 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-seven-year-old’ s nimble conversation and unusual brilliance led Voltaire, then in his late thirties, to wonder, “ Why did you only reach me so late?” They fell immediately and pa