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280 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590175934
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Publication date: 01 December 1957
Description
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extr...
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280 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590175934
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Publication date: 01 December 1957
Description
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extr...