Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings

Thiroux D'arcon, Marie-geneviève/ Candler Hayes, Julie

Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780866985789
• DDC分類 944.034

Full Description

Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville combined fierce intellectual ambition with the proper demeanor of the wife of a leading magistrate. Bemoaning her lack of a formal education in childhood, as an adult she read widely, studied languages, and sought out mentors among the scientific elite of the day. Always publishing anonymously, her works included moralist philosophy, scientific and literary translations, original scientific research, fiction, and history. Recently, a trove of unpublished essays and autobiographical writings from her final years, long thought to have been lost, has come to light, revealing her as a writer of insight, wit, and feeling.

Edited and translated by Julie Candler Hayes

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, volume 58

Contents

Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part One: Published Works, 1756-1783 23
Dedicatory epistle and translator's note 25
Discourse on Chemistry 30
Discourse on Osteology 75
Thoughts and Moral Reflections, excerpts 84
Treatise on Friendship, excerpts 102
Discourse on Putrefaction 113
Preface to The Life of Marie de Médicis 126
Preface to The History of François II 134
Part Two: Late Manuscripts, 1801-1805 141
Thoughts, Reflections, and Anecdotes, excerpts 143
Bibliography 231
Index 241