Seduced by Logic —— Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

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ISBN: 9780199931613 出版年：2012 页码：345 Arianrhod, Robyn Oxford University Press

Introduction 1 Madame Newton du Chatelet 2 Creating the theory of gravity: the Newtonian controversy 3 Learning mathematics and fighting for freedom 4 Emilie and Voltaire's Academy of Free Thought 5 Testing Newton: the'New Argonauts' 6 The danger in Newton: life, love and politics 7 The nature of light: Emilie takes on Newton 8 Searching for 'energy': Emilie discovers Leibniz 9 Mathematics and free will 10 The re-emergence of Madame Newton du Chatelet 11 Love letters to Saint-Lambert 12 Mourning Emilie 13 Mary Fairfax Somerville 14 The long road to fame 15 Mechanism of the Heavens 16 Mary's second book: popular science in the nineteenth century 17 Finding light waves: the 'Newtonian Revolution' comes of age 18 Mary Somerville: a fortunate life Epilogue: Declaring a point of view