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Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, ...
by Bodanis, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307237206
- ISBN 13
- 9780307237200
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2006. 2nd prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 373 pp. .
Synopsis
Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair is a book by author David Bodanis. Written in the form of a novel, the book deals with the life and love of Voltaire and his mistress, scientist Émilie du Châtelet. It also discusses the theories they propounded about life, theology and the nature of the universe. The story was written with the aid of historic letters of correspondence between Émilie and Voltaire, as well as between several other prominent figures of the Enlightenment.
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS102283I
- Title
- Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, ...
- Author
- Bodanis, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 2nd prt.
- ISBN 10
- 0307237206
- ISBN 13
- 9780307237200
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History;
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