Selected philosophical and scientific writings /

Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton's Principia Mathematica that is still the...

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Hlavní autor: Du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, markýza, 1706-1749 (Autor)
Další autoři: Zinsser, Judith P., 1943- (Editor, Autor úvodu atd., Překladatel), Bour, Isabelle (Překladatel)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
Edice:Other voice in early modern Europe
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On-line přístup:Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU
Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Selected philosophical and scientific writings.
Obsah:
  • I, Bernard Mandeville's The fable of the bees
  • II, Dissertation on the nature and propagation of fire
  • III, Foundations of physics
  • IV, Examinations of the Bible
  • V, Commentary on Newton's Principia
  • VI, Discourse on happiness