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Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution by Robyn Arianrhod

By Science News

The tales of two women — a French aristocrat and a Scottish commoner —intersect in an exploration of how the pair advanced Newton’s ideas about the universe.

Oxford Univ., 2012, 338 p., $34.95

A version of this article appears in the December 15, 2012 issue of Science News.

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