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Selected philosophical and scientific writings /

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Selected philosophical and scientific writings /

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Emilie du Châtelet ; edited and with an introduction by Judith P. Zinsser and translated by Isabelle Bour and Judith P. Zinsser.

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

2009.

1 online resource (xxviii, 424 pages) :

illustrations

The other voice in early modern Europe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bernard Mandeville's The fable of the bees. Volume editors' introduction ; Related letters ; Translator's preface for The fable of the bees ; Table of Du Châtelet's choices for translation from Bernard Mandeville's The fable of the bees -- Dissertation on the nature and propagation of fire. Volume editor's introduction ; Related letters ; From the Dissertation -- Foundations of physics. Volume editor's introduction ; Letters related to the Foundations ; From Foundations of physics -- Examinations of the Bible. Volume editor's introduction ; Related letters ; Examination of the books of the Old Testament ; Examination of the books of the New Testament -- Commentary on Newton's Principia. Volume editor's introduction ; Related letters ; From the commentary on Newton's Principia -- Discourse on happiness. Volume editor's introduction ; Related letters ; Discourse on happiness.

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Emilie Du Châtelet was an accomplished scientific & philosophical writer whose contribution to French intellectual life in the first half of the 18th century has long been obscured by her association with Voltaire. This volume of her writings will help re-establish a reputation that has long been overshadowed.

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Selected philosophical and scientific writings.

9780226168067

Mandeville, Bernard,1670-1733., Fable of the bees.

Newton, Isaac,1642-1727., Principia.

Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Fable of the bees (Mandeville, Bernard)

Principia (Newton, Isaac)

Fire, Early works to 1800.

Physics, Early works to 1800.

Fire.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.

Physics.

LIT-- 004150

Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil,marquise,1706-1749.

Zinsser, Judith P.

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