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Seduced by logic : Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and the Newtonian revolution /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a 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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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1 |t Madame Newton du Châtelet |g 6 -- |g 2 |t Creating the theory of gravity: the Newtonian controversy |g 12 -- |g 3 |t Learning mathematics and fighting for freedom |g 20 -- |g 4 |t Émilie and Voltaire's Academy of Free Thought |g 37 -- |g 5 |t Testing Newton: the 'New Argonauts' |g 56 -- |g 6 |t The danger in Newton: life, love and politics |g 67 -- |g 7 |t The nature of light: Émilie takes on Newton |g 80 -- |g 8 |t Searching for 'energy': Émilie discovers Leibniz |g 97 -- |g 9 |t Mathematics and free will |g 114 -- |g 10 |t The re-emergence of Madame Newton du Châtelet |g 132 -- |g 11 |t Love letters to Saint-Lambert |g 147 -- |g 12 |t Mourning Émilie |g 155 -- |g 13 |t Mary Fairfax Somerville |g 161 -- |g 14 |t The long road to fame |g 175 -- |g 15 |t Mechanism of the Heavens |g 197 -- |g 16 |t Mary's second book: popular science in the nineteenth century |g 214 -- |g 17 |t Finding light waves: the 'Newtonian Revolution' comes of age |g 227 -- |g 18 |t Mary Somerville: a fortunate life |g 244. |
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