Pandora's Breeches
Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment. A Pimlico Original
(Sprache: Englisch)
An original and highly readable exploration of the role of women in the history of science.
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An original and highly readable exploration of the role of women in the history of science.
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'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects.Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.
Autoren-Porträt von Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and is the Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her major research speciality is eighteenth-century England, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science, increasingly with an emphasis on analysing scientific imagery. She has written many reviews and articles for academic journals as well as for general publications, including History Today, New Scientist, Nature, The Times and New Statesman; she writes a regular column on scientific portraits for Endeavour.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patricia Fara
- 2004, 288 Seiten, 31 Abbildungen, Maße: 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Pimlico
- ISBN-10: 1844130827
- ISBN-13: 9781844130825
Sprache:
Englisch
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