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Description:Until recently, the marquise Du Ch�telet (1706-1749) was more remembered as the companion of Voltaire than as an intellectual in her own right. While much has been written about his extraordinary output during the years he spent in her company, her own work has often been overshadowed. This volume brings renewed attention to Du Ch�telet's intellectual achievements, including her free translation of selections from Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the bees; her dissertation on the nature and propagation of fire for the 1738 prize competition of the Acad�mie des sciences; the 1740 Institutions de physique and ensuing exchange with the perpetual secretary of the Acad�mie, Dortous de Mairan; her two-volume exegesis of the Bible; the translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's Principia; and her semi-autobiographical Discours sur le bonheur. It is a measure of the breadth of her interests that the contributions to this volume come from experts in a wide range of disciplines: comparative literature, art history, the history of mathematics and science, philosophy, the history of publishing and translation studies. Du Ch�telet's partnership with Voltaire is reflected in a number of the essays; they borrowed from each other's writings, from the discussions they had together, and from their shared readings. Essays examine representations of her by her contemporaries and posterity that range from her inclusion in a German portrait gallery of learned men and women, to the scathing portrait in Fran�oise de Graffigny's correspondence, and nineteenth-century accounts coloured by conflicted views of the ancien r�gime. Other essays offer close readings of her work, and set her activities and writings in their intellectual and social contexts. Finally, they speculate on the ways in which she presented herself and what that might tell us about the challenges and possibilities facing an exceptional woman of rank and privilege in eighteenth-century society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Svec 2006:01 Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment). To get started finding Svec 2006:01 Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Until recently, the marquise Du Ch�telet (1706-1749) was more remembered as the companion of Voltaire than as an intellectual in her own right. While much has been written about his extraordinary output during the years he spent in her company, her own work has often been overshadowed. This volume brings renewed attention to Du Ch�telet's intellectual achievements, including her free translation of selections from Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the bees; her dissertation on the nature and propagation of fire for the 1738 prize competition of the Acad�mie des sciences; the 1740 Institutions de physique and ensuing exchange with the perpetual secretary of the Acad�mie, Dortous de Mairan; her two-volume exegesis of the Bible; the translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's Principia; and her semi-autobiographical Discours sur le bonheur. It is a measure of the breadth of her interests that the contributions to this volume come from experts in a wide range of disciplines: comparative literature, art history, the history of mathematics and science, philosophy, the history of publishing and translation studies. Du Ch�telet's partnership with Voltaire is reflected in a number of the essays; they borrowed from each other's writings, from the discussions they had together, and from their shared readings. Essays examine representations of her by her contemporaries and posterity that range from her inclusion in a German portrait gallery of learned men and women, to the scathing portrait in Fran�oise de Graffigny's correspondence, and nineteenth-century accounts coloured by conflicted views of the ancien r�gime. Other essays offer close readings of her work, and set her activities and writings in their intellectual and social contexts. Finally, they speculate on the ways in which she presented herself and what that might tell us about the challenges and possibilities facing an exceptional woman of rank and privilege in eighteenth-century society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Svec 2006:01 Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment). To get started finding Svec 2006:01 Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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