Format Hardback
Pages 304
Publication date 06/04/2015
Publisher Harvard University Press
EAN Code 9780674504233
Daughters of Alchemy
Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy67,95 €
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Description
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.
Additional information
| Weight | 612 g |
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| Dimensions | 245 × 164 × 29 mm |
