This book introduces Bodanis’s " microphotography" writing style, in which the author takes a worm's-eye view perspective that allows him to observe many obscure and complex phenomena of everyday life. In 1986, Bodanis had his first commercial authorial success with The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange & Wonderful World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days, which reached no 5 on The New York Times Best Seller list and established him as a popular science writer. A move to the South of France followed, and he then split his time between France and London, combining writing with stints as a science presenter on 1980s ITV show, the Wide Awake Club.īodanis moved to the UK full-time in the late 1980s, combining writing with teaching social sciences at St Antony's College, Oxford, consulting for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, and speaking engagements including at conferences and Davos. In his early twenties he moved to Paris, where he began his career as a foreign correspondent for the International Herald Tribune. He lived in France for ten years from his early twenties and has since been based in London.īodanis was born and brought up in Chicago, Illinois, and read mathematics, physics and history at the University of Chicago. Originally from Chicago, he received an undergraduate education in mathematics, physics and economics at the University of Chicago (AB 1977). Then in her forties, it meant an almost-certain death in childbirth.David Bodanis is an American speaker, business advisor and writer of bestselling nonfiction books, notably E=mc 2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, which was translated into 26 languages. When their love finally ended, Emilie found happiness in an independent life until, tragically, she became pregnant. Their progressive thinking won them only public scorn and even imprisonment in the Bastille for Voltaire. When they ran out of money, Emilie, with her razor-sharp mathematics, would gamble in Versailles. Voltaire challenged the social norms and great injustices of the era, as well as expanding on Newton's Laws. In an isolated chateau they combined their unique talents, producing theories more than a century ahead of their time. Fiercely intellectual and passionate, Emilie's relationship with Voltaire was as radical as her thinking only after swordfights, wild affairs and rigging the French national lottery did the two finally find love together. Emilie du Chatelet was one of the greatest thinkers of the 18th century, a woman whose work was of vital use to Einstein and who, until now, has been largely ignored by history.
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