La Dame d'Esprit; a Biography of the Marquise de Chatelet.
2006 · (New York):
by ZINSSER, Judith P.
(New York):: Viking, 2006., 2006. Cover half-title: From a life of frivolity to a life of the mind. 8vo. viii, 376 pp. Plates, index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0670038008 Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet (1706 – 1749), French mathematician, physicist, and author. Voltaire was one of her lovers. She also translated Newton's Principia. (Inventory #: BL4525)