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Women of the Scientific Revolution

By Jeri Freedman

Book information

Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group
Year
2017
ISBN
9781508174790, 9781508174783
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2989334 bytes)
Series
Leaders of the Scientific Revolution Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
114\0
Time added
2023-08-20 08:59:14

Description

Women were not allowed to attend academic institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but many were highly educated and contributed significantly to understanding laws of science and nature. Many are unfamiliar with the women who were instrumental to the Scientific Revolution: the naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian; Margaret Cavendish, author of scientific books; physicist Émilie du Châtelet; Maria Agnesi, a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Bologna; and astronomer Caroline Herschel, among others. This book explores the context of women's involvement in the Scientific Revolution and their contributions to botany, astronomy, mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry.

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