"Seduced by logic : Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and the Newtonian revolution" : Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and the Newtonian revolution

Bok av Robyn Arianrhod
This story of two remarkable women, milie du Chtelet 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.