Judith Zinsser
Auteur de History of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present
A propos de l'auteur
Judith P. Zinsser is a professor of history at Miami University in Ohio.
Œuvres de Judith Zinsser
History of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present (1988) — Auteur — 485 exemplaires
A history of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present (1988) — Auteur — 322 exemplaires
A history of their own : women in Europe from prehistory to the present (1988) — Auteur — 127 exemplaires
Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (2006) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Gender 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- abt 1945
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Organisations
- American Historical Association
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 1,101
- Popularité
- #23,344
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
The irony is circumstantial evidence indicates Zinsser is probably correct. The Marquise translated Newton (I’m not sure if Zinsser’s claim that her translation is still the definitive French version is correct). She mastered calculus, which is no mean feat – I’d bet there weren’t a dozen people in the world who could make that claim in the 1730s. Although Zinsser glosses over it, the Marquise’s most significant work might be experiments with heat – she set up a foundry at her chateau and measured the cooling rate of various molten metals. It seems that Voltaire, although he assisted her, didn’t quite understand what she was trying to accomplish here – although it isn’t very glamorous, the careful measurement of physical properties is the foundation of all science and technology. Her contemporaries acknowledged her with favorable reviews of her books without mentioning her gender or nobility. It’s too bad this book – which I again agree is interesting enough as a biography of a courtier of the time – doesn’t go into more detail on just what was involved in the Marquise’s mathematical and scientific work.… (plus d'informations)