Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
David Bodanis examines the relationship between Emilie du Chatelet and Voltaire against the backdrop of the Enlightenment. Combining biography, intellectual history, science, and romance, Passionate Minds explores the meeting of personal passion and an era defined by ambitious ideas.
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Passionate Minds focuses on Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and their relationship during the Enlightenment.
The book connects a love affair with the era’s wider intellectual life.
Its subject brings together biography, history, science, and romance.
David Bodanis presents this historical story in a work centered on two influential Enlightenment figures.
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