Sentimental savants : philosophical families in Enlightenment France / Meghan K. Roberts.
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...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Men of letters, men of feeling
- Working together
- Love, proof, and smallpox inoculation
- Enlightening children
- Organic enlightenment.