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.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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