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Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment

By Patricia , Fara

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Digital
Year
2011
ISBN
9781446435168, 1844130827, 1446435164
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1533025 bytes)
Pages
288 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Gender studies: women;Popular science;SCIENCE--His

Description

'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.

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