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Cover half-title: From a life of frivolity to a life of the mind. 8vo. viii, 376 pp. Plates, index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0670038008 Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet (1706 â€Â" 1749), French mathematician, physicist, and author. Voltaire was one of her lovers. She also translated Newton's Principia.

Documents the life of the French Enlightenment-era intellectual, from her aristocratic youth and controversial choice to become the mistress of Voltaire to her mathematical and scientific achievements and work as a translator of Newton. Solid binding. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Small name plate in front. 176pp. Notes. Biblio. Index. Plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

viii, 376 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton. Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey as his patroness, his lover, and his companion. In this sparkling life, Judith P. Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chatelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment. Freed by her wealth and status to pursue a life of the mind, Du Ch?telet developed swiftly into an accomplished mathematician, physicist, translator, and author of original works of philosophy and science. At the end of her life, pregnant by a young new lover, she raced to complete her translation and commentary on Newton's Principia. The only woman of the Enlightenment to be recognized for her genius, Du Chatelet was centuries ahead of her time. By bringing this singular woman to life with style and wit, Zinsser at last gives this revolutionary her due. / Judith P. Zinsser is the coauthor of the landmark two-volume history of European women, A History of Their Own. She teaches at Miami University in Ohio." - Publisher. Size: 8vo

378 pp. Spine bumped. Jacket has edgewear, small dents on rear. The life of Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, patron, mistress, and intellectual companion of Voltaire for 15 years. But she was much more that that single relationship. She was an intellectual in her own right, in a time when women were barred from the gatherings of learned men. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Publisher's boards in dj. 376pp.

Un volume (24 cm) di VIII-376 pagine, con illustrazioni ft in nero. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale con sovracoperta illustrata (minime usure al margine). Ottime condizioni.