Passionate Minds : Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment

Recounts the tumultuous, decade-long love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted and radical scientists of the eighteenth century, whose contributions to the world of science have been ignored by history, set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.