Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin
Standard Name: Mairin, Jean-Baptiste Dortous de
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By 26 March 1741
Emilie du Chatelet
composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin
, Secretary of the Académie Française
, on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.
Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.
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Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.