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

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Madame Newton du Chatelet
2 Creating the theory of gravity: the Newtonian controversy
3 Learning mathematics and fighting for freedom
4 Emilie and Voltaire's Academy of Free Thought
5 Testing Newton: the'New Argonauts'
6 The danger in Newton: life, love and politics
7 The nature of light: Emilie takes on Newton
8 Searching for 'energy': Emilie discovers Leibniz
9 Mathematics and free will
10 The re-emergence of Madame Newton du Chatelet
11 Love letters to Saint-Lambert
12 Mourning Emilie
13 Mary Fairfax Somerville
14 The long road to fame
15 Mechanism of the Heavens
16 Mary's second book: popular science in the nineteenth century
17 Finding light waves: the 'Newtonian Revolution' comes of age
18 Mary Somerville: a fortunate life
Epilogue: Declaring a point of view

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