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050 00 $aPQ1981.D55$bZ98 2006
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100 1 $aZinsser, Judith P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86120072
245 13 $aLa dame d'esprit :$ba biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet /$cJudith P. Zinsser.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2006.
300 $aviii, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [352]-365) and index.
520 1 $a"Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749), might be best known for her unorthodox fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, but she was much more than the patron, mistress, and intellectual companion of France's most famous poet and playwright. In the first decades of the French Enlightenment, although barred from even the most informal gatherings of learned men because of her sex, she wrote on the ideas of English moral philosophers and deists and on the nature of fire, light, and the cosmos itself. Her translation of Isaac Newton's Principia remains the authoritative French version to this day and her commentary on this mammoth classic demonstrated her mastery of the new calculus, a skill shared by only a dozen or so others in 1740s Europe. She even devised her own academy at her family country chateau and attracted the leading mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers of the day. Ultimately, Du Chatelet gained recognition as a genius from the members of Europe's Republic of Letters in her lifetime." "Set against the panorama of Louis XV's France, La Dame d-Esprit is the story of a woman who strove to balance the expectations of society, the needs of the people she loved, and a rich intellectual existence. Based on more than a decade of original research, this biography brings this daring, unconventional woman to life with style and wit and demonstrates once and for all that there was indeed a great woman philosophe of the Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDu Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil,$cmarquise,$d1706-1749.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50051708
650 0 $aAuthors, French$y18th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100554
650 0 $aScientists$zFrance$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111331
650 0 $aFeminists$zFrance$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103693
852 00 $bglx$hPQ1981.D55$iZ98 2006
852 00 $bbar$hPQ1981.D55$iZ98 2006