Affiliation:
1. Department of History, Miami UniversityUpham Hall, 252 Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Abstract
When writing a biography, much has to be omitted to keep the life story focused and manageable for the reader. In
La Dame d'Esprit: a biography of the marquise Du Châtelet
the information about Émilie Du Châtelet's mentors seems, in retrospect, all too brief. This article therefore presents Maupertuis, Clairaut and Dortous de Mairan and describes their interactions with the marquise. It ends with speculations about why this exceptional
philosophe
is only now gaining the recognition she deserved as a member of France's eighteenth-century Republic of Letters.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science
Cited by
9 articles.
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