| Description |
ix, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Beacon paperback ; 720
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Beacon paperbacks ; 720.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-224) and index. |
| Contents |
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 Châtelet -- The nineteenth-century mathematicians. The mathematical contributions of Sophie Germain ; Ada Lovelace and the beginnings of computer science ; The mathematical mind : the story of Sóphia Kovalévsky -- The popularisation and professionalisation of science. Jane Marcet's Conversations ; The universities and the scientific societies ; Mary Somerville : 'the queen of nineteenth-century science.' |
| Subject |
Women in science -- History.
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Women in science. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's heritage. Boston : Beacon Press, ©1986 (OCoLC)682230130 |
| ISBN |
0807067318 (paperback) |
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9780807067314 (paperback) |
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080706730X (hardcover) |
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9780807067307 (hardcover) |
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