Passionate Minds
The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie Du Châtelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fights, Book Burnings, Assorted Kings, Seditious Verse, and the Birth of the Modern World
By: David Bodanis
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2006
Language: Unknown
Format: BOOK
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780307237200
About This Book
Bodanis takes readers to the heart of the Enlightenment through the story of the affair between the politically daring writer Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted scientists of the 18th century.