Men, women, and the birthing of modern science / edited by Judith P. Zinsser.
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| Alternate Title: | Modern science |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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DeKalb :
Northern Illinois University Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Judith P. Zinsser
- SECTION I. WOMEN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
- Queen Christina's metamorphosis - her alchemical world soul and fictional gender transformation / Susanna Åkerman
- Margaret Cavendish and the microscope as play / Hilda L. Smith
- The many representations of the Marquise Du Chatêlet / Judith P. Zinsser
- SECTION II. SHIFTING LANGUAGE, SHIFTING ROLES
- The gender of nature and the nature of gender in early modern natural philosophy / Margaret J. Osler
- Neither natural philosophy, nor science, nor literature - gender, writing, and the pursuit of nature in Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes habités / J.B. Shank
- Minerva and Venus - Algarotti's Newton's philosophy for the ladies / Franco Arato
- SECTION III. WOMEN, MEN, AND THE NEW SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT
- Women and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - different social practices, different textualities, and different kinds of science / Lynette Hunter
- Joanna Stephens's medicine and the experimental philosophy / Stephen Clucas
- The invisible economy of science - a new approach to the history of gender and astronomy at the eighteenth-century Berlin Academy of Sciences / Monika Mommertz
- Princess Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova and women's issues in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Grigory A. Tishkin.