Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France 0300252560, 9780300252569

Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France 9780300258431

A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely wri

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The Enlightenment in France 9780873380324

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Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment 9780226720852

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment,

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Women of Modern France

"Women of Modern France" by Hugo P. Thieme. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titl

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Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment

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Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France 9780812294804

Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intelle

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Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France 1503613364, 9781503613362

The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual

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Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France 9781503614178

The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual

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Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment 9781400873012

With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade

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The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment

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