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D'Alembert's Principle A Novel in Three Panels
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D'Alembert's Principle A Novel in Three Panels Unknown - 1999

by Andrew Crumey


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As the scientist D'Alembert nears the end of his life, he looks back on his friendships with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot and mourns his unrequited love for a woman who spent years deceiving him. At the same time, an exiled Jacobite dreams of journeying to the planets, and in a prison cell two unlikely captives discuss love, language, and fate. Meticulously crafted, "D'Alembert's Principle" is a fascinating historical triptych about memory, reason, and imagination set in the rich and lavish world of eighteenth-century Europe.

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A woman, her face covered against cold and shame, hurries through the dark streets of Paris on a November night in 1717.

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  • Title D'Alembert's Principle A Novel in Three Panels
  • Author Andrew Crumey
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  • Publisher Picador, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 30, 1999
  • ISBN 9780312204013

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Andrew Crumey studied theoretical physics and mathematics at St. Andrews University and Imperial College, and did postdoctoral research at Leeds University on nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of two other novels, "Music, In a Foreign Language" and "Pfitz," a "New York Times Notable Book of the Year" (both Picador). He lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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