18th century
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antoine lavoisier
Author_Meghan K. Roberts
Category=QDH
denis diderot
domestic life
emilie du chatelet
Enlightenment
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europe
familial relationships
family
france
fraternity
french
happiness
historical
history
intellectual
jerome lalande
liberty
philosophical
philosophy
progress
reason
sense
smallpox
the marquis de condorcet
tolerance
working together
Product details
- ISBN 9780226384115
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2016
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in observing, translating, calculating, and illustrating.Sentimental Savants is the first book to explore the place of the family among the savants of the French Enlightenment, a group that openly embraced their families and domestic lives, even going so far as to test out their ideas from education to inoculation on their own children. Meghan K. Roberts delves into the lives and work of such major figures as Denis Diderot, emilie Du Ch telet, the Marquis de Condorcet, Antoine Lavoisier, and Jer me Lalande to paint a striking portrait of how sentiment and reason interacted in the eighteenth century to produce not only new kinds of knowledge, but new kinds of families as well.
Meghan K. Roberts is assistant professor of history at Bowdoin College.
