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Hypatia's heritage a history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century

Margaret Alic

Boston Beacon Press 1986

Localização: FZEA - Fac. Zoot. Eng. de Alimentos    (Q130 A398h 1986 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Hypatia's heritage a history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century
  • Autor: Margaret Alic
  • Assuntos: Women in science -- History; MULHERES NA CIÊNCIA (HISTÓRIA)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-224) and index
  • Descrição: Goddesses and gatherers : women in prehistory. The first women scientists ; Goddesses and heroines -- Women and science in the ancient world. The first written records ; The women Pythagoreans ; Women philosophers of the Golden Age of Greece ; The medical women of classical Greece ; The Roman matrons -- From the Alexandrians to the Arabs. The Alexandrian alchemists ; Hypatia of Alexandria ; The survival of science -- Medicine and alchemy : women and experimental science in the Middle Ages. Trotula and the 'Ladies of Salerno' ; Women and medicine in the later Middle Ages ; Women scientists of the Italian Renaissance ; Mediaeval alchemy -- 'The Sibyl of the Rhine' -- The rise of the scientific lady. Women and the 'selling' of science ; 'Mad Madge', the Duchess of Newcastle ; Lady Mary Montagu, scientist and feminist ; The scientific lady satirized -- From alchemy and herbs : chemists and physicians of the Scientific Revolution. The new chemists ; Alchemical and herbal medicine ; Medicine becomes a science ; Women invade the profession -- The new naturalists. Natural history during the Scientific Revolution ; Botany, the female science ; The women geologists ; Women naturalists become biologists -- The women astronomers. The Coperincan Revolution ; Caroline Herschel and her comet sweepers -- The philosophers of the Scientific Revolution . The women philosophers of Italy ; The Marquise du Ch atelet -- The nineteenth-century mathematicians. The mathematical contributions of Sophie Germain ; Ada Lovelace and the beginnings of computer science ; The mathematical mind : the story of S ophia Koval evsky -- The popularisation and professionalisation of science. Jane Marcet's Conversations ; The universities and the scientific societies ; Mary Somerville : 'the queen of nineteenth-century science.'
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Beacon paperbacks 720
  • Editor: Boston Beacon Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1986
  • Formato: ix, 230 pages, [8] pages of plates illustrations 21 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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