Helena Taylor | Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudéry’s 'Conversations' (1680–92) – An Essay and Translation | Open Book Publishers | 2026

Helena Taylor, Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudéry’s 'Conversations' (1680–92) – An Essay and Translation, Open Book Publishers, 2026 Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) was a celebrated seventeenth-century novelist and essayist, yet her engagement with natural philosophy and the sciences has been largely overlooked. This volume presents the first English translation of 'The Story of Two Chameleons' (1688) and situates it within Scudéry’s broader scientific and philo...